Content_paragraphs:  In-person meetings of the reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation 
  
  Commission resumed on 30 September. The interim Chairperson, Major General 
  
  Charles Tai Gituai, called for the reconstitution of the Transitional National 
  
  Legislative Assembly, the graduation of the necessary unified forces and the 
  
  appointment of the Governor of Upper Nile. At the meeting, the Joint Transitional 
  
  Security Committee reported that it had completed the development of eligibility 
  
  criteria, curricula and syllabuses, established 17 training centres across the country 
  
  and prepared five centres in the greater Equatoria region for the graduation  of the 
  
  necessary unified forces. It highlighted the ongoing operational challenges owing to 
  
  a lack of funding. The Joint Defence Board submitted a report on the harmonized 
  
  command structures of the security agencies, which has yet to be endorsed by the 
  
  principals. It was noted in the October quarterly report of the reconstituted Joint 
  
  Monitoring and Evaluation Commission that, while the permanent ceasefire was 
  
  largely holding, COVID-19-related disruptions, a lack of resources, intercommunal 
  
  clashes, an increasing number of incidents of defection and a lack of political will 
  
  impeded the implementation of the Agreement. In a meeting held on 26 November, 
  
  the Commission, inter alia, urged the parties to immediately reconstitute the 
  
  Assembly and the Council of States and observe the 35 per cent quota for women in 
  
  the institutions of transition.