Content_paragraphs:  Regional actors were supportive of the regular engagement that occurs between
  
  the IGAD, the African Union and the United Nations, and the review team identified
  
  efforts to coordinate the activities of these actors. In 2018, the three organizations
  
  agreed on a concept note regarding their mutual collaboration in support of the
  
  Revitalized Peace Agreement in South Sudan. Since 2017, senior officials of the
  
  African Union Commission and the United Nations Secretariat have conducted
  
  several joint visits to South Sudan. The African Union Commissioner for Peace and
  
  Security, Smail Chergui, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations of the United
  
  Nations Jean-Pierre Lacroix and the IGAD Special Envoy for South Sudan, Ismail
  
  Wais, conducted a joint visit to South Sudan in May 2019. The ambassadors of the
  
  African Union High-level Ad Hoc Committee for South Sudan participated in the
  
  visit. In the second half of 2019, the United Nations, the African Union and IGAD
  
  undertook a coordinated effort to encourage face-to-face meetings between the
  
  President and the now First Vice-President, and encourage the formation of the
  
  Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity. UNMISS also provided
  
  logistical support to IGAD field visits as required, as well as to visits of the African
  
  Union Peace and Security Council. In July 2018, the Deputy Secretary-General and
  
  the Special Envoy of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on Women,
  
  Peace and Security, undertook a joint African Union-United Nations solidarity visit
  
  to South Sudan focused on women’s participation. There were also opportunities for
  
  
  
   
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  the Special Envoy to strengthen cooperation with UNMISS and relevant United
  
  Nations and IGAD entities, in particular by reinforcing engagement with gender
  
  advisers in relevant IGAD bodies and within UNMISS.