UN Security Council
2018

Leadership Coordination Forum, in order to strengthen the joint senior leadership decision-making between UNSOM and AMISOM and ensure operational efforts are aligned with a common set of strategic priorities, and enhance coordination efforts on the ground within the Comprehensive Approach to Security (CAS) mechanism to utilise each other’s comparative advantage and maximise impacts for the FGS and FMS, further requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide technical and expert advice to the AU on the planning, deployment and strategic management of AMISOM in line with the mandate of the United Nations office to the AU, and reiterates its request to the Secretary-General, in view of the need to increase AMISOM’s efficiency, to enhance the provision of technical advice to the AU through existing United Nations mechanisms; 26. Stresses the importance of early and sustained coordination of all joint operations, as well as inclusive planning of stabilisation and other follow up activity in newly recovered areas, including the focus areas identified in the transition plan, and of taking full account of the need to protect civilians and mitigate risk before,