Peace and Security Cluster of theRCM – AFRICA

13th RCM Meeting Addis Ababa

14-15 November 2012Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Cluster AchievementsCluster Achievements• Support and capacity-building assistance,

both from UN and other partners• UNOAU, for example, provides 22 full-time

planners tasked with both day-to-day support and capacity-building assistance

• AU PSD believes they are already near full absorptive capacity

• Cluster coordinates, incorporates cross-cutting themes, and plans joint activities, based on known AUC priorities

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Cluster Achievements

• Clusters and its 4 sub-clusters – African Peace and Security Architecture– Post-Conflict Reconstruction and

Development, – Transitional Justice, and – Emergency Preparedness and Response

planned and implemented 10 joint activities in 2012

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Key Challenges and Messages• Peace and Security objectives of

2006 Framework well on the way to being achieved; significant capacity-building support is being delivered to the AUC by the UN• But ownership of RCM process

has not improved

• AUC chairmanship of clusters and results-oriented programming, as called for in the 2010 Triennial Review, did not produce the desired improvement in AUC ownership

• Problem is more fundamental: – Lack of perceived added value from the RCM

process, itself caused by lack of consensus at the AUC over the importance of additional capacity-building

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Key Challenges and Messages

Key Challenges and Messages• 2011 AUC needs assessment - no follow-

up; ownership?• Cluster system and RCM Secretariat

both need greater leadership from UN • New DSG, new leadership at the AUC

and ECA, present an opportunity to address these problems. We are encourages by preliminary discussions with each of them.

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