Content_paragraphs:  Regional interlocutors informed the review team that they would welcome
  
  additional support from the United Nations, including material and technical support,
  
  to ensure that their officials were able to contribute to the advancement of the peace
  
  process more effectively. They also stressed the need to shift the focus of meetings
  
  from ad hoc engagement centred on information-sharing, to more structured
  
  engagement and the formulation of joint strategies, possibly based on a joint
  
  assessment of post-conflict needs and a shared analysis. Interlocutors expressed
  
  various opinions on which regional actors had a comparative advantage in engaging
  
  on disarmament, demobilization and reintegration and on security sector reform, but
  
  widely agreed that the extensive footprint of UNMISS around the country placed it
  
  in a position to lead on engagement with South Sudanese civilian authorities at the
  
  state level, support the devolution of responsibilities to states and help regional actors
  
  to extend their reach to the subnational level. With regard to addressing gender
  
  equality, regional stakeholders observed that UNMISS could facilitate access to
  
  communities for activities geared towards normative and cultural changes.