REGIONAL DIALOGUE ON ENHANCED
COORDINATION TOWARDS NEPAD
IMPLEMENTATION
UN Regional Coordination
Mechanism and its Sub-Regional
Dimensions
RCM-Africa Secretariat
Durban, South Africa
6-7 June 2012
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Outline
 Brief introduction to RCMAfrica
 Coordinating for better
outcomes
 Major achievements of RCMAfrica
 SRCMs
 Harnessing RCM for
implementation of NEPAD
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What is the RCM?
 A mechanism for enhancing UN
system-wide coherence,
coordination and cooperation
at the regional and sub-regional
levels
 ‘Delivering as one’ in
promoting development in
Africa and in support of AU and
NEPAD
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Background
 UN General Assembly Resolution 1998/46 provides
imperative for holding regular inter-agency
meetings
 UN Resolution 57/7 called for UN system
organisations to coordinate activities in support of
NEPAD - 2002
 Consultative meetings led to establishment of fullfledged coordination mechanism
 RCM-Africa transformed into a Joint AU-UN
mechanism (Nov 2009)
 RCM-Africa Sessions held annually
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Clusters of RCM-Africa
Infrastructure
Development
Industry,
Trade &
Market
Access
ECA
Governance
UNDP
UNIDO
Environment
Population &
Urbanization
Peace and
Security
UNOAU
ECA/AUC
UNEP
Joint Secretariat
Social and
Human
Development
Advocacy and
Communication
OSAA
WHO
Science And
Technology
UNESCO
Agriculture,
Food Security
& Rural
Development
FAO
Each of the 9 Clusters of RCM-Africa is CoCoordinated by the AU Commission
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Coordinating for better
Outcomes
 Multiple actors pursuing same
goals have to do things to
organise themselves that single
actors pursuing those same
goals would not have to do
 Coordination refers to these
extra organising activities
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Basic Concepts
Coordination presupposes the
following:
 Multiple actors
 Dependencies among activities
 Alternative ways of performing
desired tasks in a more efficient
and cheaper manner
 Common desired outcomes
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In the absence of Coordination
 Over-stretched attention and
capacities of beneficiary institutions
 Overlapping and conflicting tasks
 Delivery of similar outputs
 Failure to share common inputs or
services, e.g. for administrative
purposes
 Failure to take advantage of existing
outputs which may serve as inputs
for other tasks
 Inadequate sharing of resources
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Coordination Tools/Instruments
 Sharing of information
 Meetings (physical, VC, Tel
Conference)
 Joint planning, programming,
implementation (Business
Plans/PIPs)
 MoUs
 Joint Declarations
 Strategic Documents (Strategic
Frameworks/Plans/Directions)9
Main Achievements of RCM
 Ownership of mechanism by UN and AU
 Strong leadership by UN and AU at the
highest level: Co-chaired by UNDSG and
AUC Deputy Chairperson
 Joint UN-AU RCM-Africa Secretariat
 Full membership of NEPAD Agency and
RECs
 RCM-Africa deeply entrenched as
credible platform for supporting AU and
its NEPAD Programme
 Other parties increasingly indicating
interest to collaborate with RCM-Africa
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Main Achievements (con’t)
 RCM-Africa more results-oriented
 Business Plans developed by clusters with
clear expected results and performance
indicators
 Annual programme implementation plans
prepared
 Emphasis placed on joint activities
 Gender and other crosscutting issues
mainstreamed in the work RCM Clusters
 Guidelines for mainstreaming crosscutting
issues developed (gender, employment,
governance, etc.)
 SRCMs being established; Business Plans
being developed
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Strategic Actions of RCM-Africa
 Capacity Building Work
Programme
 Annual work plans
 Establishment of SRCMs
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Capacity Building
(TYCBP-AU)
 Declaration on TYCBP-AU
signed by UN SG and AUC
Chairperson in 2006
 TYCBP-AU conceived as UN
overall platform for cooperation
with AU
 Objective is to enhance capacity
of AUC, African regional
organisations to act as effective
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UN partners
TYCBP-AU Work Programme
 Work Programme for TYCBP-AU developed and
endorsed by 12th Session of RCM
 Results-oriented Work Programme developed in
a participatory manner
 Comprehensive capacity needs assessment of
AUC undertaken
 High-level UN-AU Retreat held at Kiruftu
 RCM-Africa clusters are developing annual
programme implementation plans with capacity
building components
 Work Programme to be extended to other
members of AU family (NPCA, APRM, RECs,
etc.)
 TOR for NPCA capacity building work
programme already developed
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Sub-Regional Coordination
Mechanisms
 Significant progress made in
establishing SRCMs
 Joint SRCM for Eastern and
Southern Africa launched
 Process of developing Business Plan
for the SRCM underway
 Business Plan to be validated in July
2012
 Task force to design modalities for
joint SRCM for Central and Western
Africa put in place
 SRCM already exist in Central Africa
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RCM and Implementation of
NEPAD
 Work of RCM Clusters revolves
around continental (mostly NEPAD)
progammes
 Focal points could help identify the
kind of support needed to
implement programmes at national
level
 This could then be a factor in
determining UN support to
AUC/RECs/NPCA in implementation
of NEPAD
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Way Forward
 NEPAD Focal Points could participate in
ICE/SRCM/RCM meetings
 This could ensure that their concerns are
addressed by SROs, SRCMs and RCM
 ICE could identify areas where member
States need assistance from RECs to
implement NEPAD projects and for which
RCM/SRCM could provide support
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Thanks
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