Featured Partners - The African Union
African Union
The 国产AVbuilding Support Office (PBSO) in the Department of Political and 国产AVbuilding Affairs (DPPA) partners with the African Union (AU) in a variety of ways including through its support to the 国产AVbuilding Commission’s (PBC) country and regional engagements in Africa and its annual consultative collaboration with the AU 国产AV and Security Council (AU PSC) on peacebuilding and sustaining peace.?The partnership, guided by the?, is rooted in comparative advantages, complementarity, and burden-sharing principles along with other frameworks, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2018), Agenda 2063, the AU Post-conflict Reconstruction and Development (PCRD) Policy framework, and the extended AU’s Silencing the Guns Initiative.
The PBC?places a high value on the work and expertise of regional organizations and has continuously invited the AU to brief or intervene at PBC meetings. ?For instance, at a PBC meeting organized on Chad in December 2021, the AU High Representative and Special Representative for Chad, H.E Mr. Basile Ikouébé, briefed the PBC on the ongoing transition in the country. Additionally, the AU Youth Envoy Ms. Chido Cleopatra Mpemba briefed the PBC at its annual meeting on Youth, 国产AV and Security. The PBC and the AU PSC have also annually convened an informal consultative meeting to discuss current and emerging threats to peace and security and peacebuilding in Africa. Informal consultative meeting topics have included the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on peacebuilding and PCRD activities in African countries, political transitions, and the climate-peacebuilding nexus. In October 2022, the Commission submitted its first-ever written advice to the Security Council on the AU for the Council’s Debate on the partnership with the African Union and encouraged more impact driven collaboration between the UN and the AU, including in support of the AU’s efforts to revitalize and operationalize the AU's PCRD Policy.
In line with the above, the Observer Mission of the African Union has emphasized the concrete and impactful opportunities for partnerships in the domain of peacebuilding between the AU PSC and the PBC, here in the timely context of South Sudan: “Further, the African Union Post-conflict Reconstruction and Development support framework allows the peacebuilding mechanism of the United Nations to be reactivated and operationalized in order to provide an enabling environment for South Sudan’s reconstruction and development. The reinvigorated approach is already leading to opportunities for further collaborations with bilateral and multilateral partners. The 国产AVbuilding Commission may recall that during its last visit to South Sudan, the African Union mission had suggested consideration for joint AU/PBC missions and increased coordination between the AU and the PBC.”