Content_paragraphs:  On the basis of Security Council resolution 2514 (2020), the Secretariat
  
  prepared terms of reference for the review team, in which it requested the team to do
  
  the following: evaluate how political solutions could be achieved, as defined in the
  
  Revitalized Peace Agreement; formulate recommendations on how UNMISS could
  
  best implement its responsibilities regarding the protection of civilians across all
  
  mandate components; assess how to strengthen accountability for human rights
  
  violations in support of national judicial institutions and promote inclusive security
  
  sector reform; evaluate how to achieve greater synergies between UNMISS and other
  
  United Nations humanitarian and development partners, as well as with external
  
  actors, so as to fulfil common goals and ultimately meet peacebuilding objectives;
  
  and consider the extent to which the Mission, working closely with relevant United
  
  Nations entities and with regional and international actors could assist South
  
  Sudanese stakeholders in laying the foundations for accountable and transpare nt
  
  governance. Under its terms of reference, the review team was further to assess gender
  
  in the following ways: as a mainstreamed component of the Mission’s mandate; as a
  
  central tenet of the Revitalized Peace Agreement and the peace process more
  
  https://undocs.org/en/S/RES/2514(2020)
  https://undocs.org/en/S/RES/2514(2020)
  
  
   
  S/2020/1224
  
   
  
  13/74 20-16178
  
   
  
  generally; and as a key area of focus in the United Nations system-wide strategy on
  
  gender parity (2017–2028), both to change the institutional culture and as a working
  
  approach to support achievement of the Mission’s mandate. 
  
   
  
   
  
   C. Methodology