Security Council Resolution 2579 (2021) [on Extension of the Mandate of the Un Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (Unitams) Until 3 June 2022]

S/RES/2579 (2021)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Security Council, under agenda item 205 Reports of the Secretary-General on the Sudan and South Sudan, published in 2021.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2021–2022

This is an older version — the most recent is S/RES/2636 (2022)

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2022	S/RES/2636 (2022)	Security Council resolution 2636 (2022) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) until 3 June 2023]	—	—
2021	S/RES/2579 (2021)	Security Council resolution 2579 (2021) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) until 3 June 2022]	—	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

8 reports · 2021–2023

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2023	S/2023/355	Situation in the Sudan and the activities of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan report of the Secretary-General	S/RES/2636 (2022)
2023	S/2023/154	Situation in the Sudan and the activities of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan report of the Secretary-General	S/RES/2636 (2022)
2022	S/2022/898	Situation in the Sudan and the activities of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan report of the Secretary-General	S/RES/2636 (2022)
2022	S/2022/667	Situation in the Sudan and the activities of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan report of the Secretary-General	S/RES/2636 (2022)
2022	S/2022/400	Situation in the Sudan and the activities of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan report of the Secretary-General	S/RES/2579 (2021)

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Peacebuilding Peacekeeping Operations Sudan

What’s in this document?

24 operative paragraphs

Decides to extend the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) until 3 June 2022;

Requests the Government of Sudan to sign swiftly the UNITAMS Status of Mission Agreement (SOMA) with the United Nations, in order to enable the full, effective and unhindered functioning of UNITAMS;

Decides that UNITAMS, as part of an integrated and unified United Nations structure, shall, in full accordance with the principles of national ownership, continue to have the following strategic objectives:

Assist the political transition, progress towards democratic governance, in the protection and promotion of human rights, and sustainable peace

a. Assist, through good offices, the Sudanese transition, including national efforts to realise the objectives of the Constitutional Document and the timelines it sets for the transition;

b. Provide technical assistance to the constitution drafting process, the establishment and functioning of the Transitional Legislative Council, the population census, preparations for elections, in support of national efforts;

c. Support the implementation of the human rights, equality, accountability and rule of law provisions of the Constitutional Document, in particular those provisions that guarantee women’s rights, and future peace agreements, including through close cooperation with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Country Office in Sudan;

Support peace processes and implementation of the Juba Peace Agreement and future peace agreements

a. Provide good offices and support to ongoing and future peace negotiations between the Government of Sudan and Sudanese armed groups, including supporting the meaningful participation of civil society, women, youth, refugees and IDPs and members of marginalised groups;

b. Provide scalable support to the implementation of the JPA, as clarified by the parties to the JPA, and any future peace agreements, including support to ceasefire arrangements and monitoring mechanisms as set out in Title 2, Chapter 8 of the JPA, to the power-sharing provisions of the JPA, the provisions of the JPA concerning land ownership and usage, accountability and transitional justice, in particular the provisions of Chapter 3 of the JPA, and including for acts of sexual and gender-based violence, to disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR), safe and effective management, storage and security of weapons and ammunition stockpiles, and taking into account the different needs, experiences, and safety of female and male ex-combatants, including children;

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Assist peacebuilding, civilian protection and rule of law, in particular in Darfur and the Two Areas

a. Support Sudanese-led peacebuilding, in particular conflict prevention, mitigation and reconciliation, community violence reduction with a particular focus on inter-communal violence, mine action, collection of small arms and light weapons consistent with international standards, durable solutions for IDPs and refugees, and their safe, voluntary and dignified return, reintegration and relocation with host populations as appropriate, including through integrated peacebuilding mechanisms in line with paragraph 10 of this resolution and political engagement at the local and state level;

b. Assist, advise and support the Government of Sudan’s capacity to extend state presence and inclusive civilian governance, in particular through strengthening accountable rule of law and security sector institutions, and building trust between state authorities and local communities, including through community-policing initiatives, or other methods of unarmed civilian protection, and providing advisory and capacity building support for security authorities, in particular through expanded support Sudanese Police Force (SPF), and the Joint Security-Keeping Force envisaged in the JPA, including through United Nations advisers and working in close cooperation with the United Nations Country Team, including through joint programming;

c. Assist, advise and support the Government of Sudan to establish a secure and stable environment within which the JPA and future peace agreements can be implemented, by providing effective support to national and local authorities on civilian protection, in particular IDPs, in the conflict-affected areas, supporting the Government of Sudan in implementing the National Plan for Civilian Protection (S/2020/429) and developing measurable benchmarks, emphasising transparency and inclusive procedures, and through deploying mobile monitoring teams, facilitating local crisis mediation, early warning mechanisms, including Women Protection networks, communications and outreach strategies with affected populations;

d. Support the strengthening of the respect, promotion and protection of human rights, in particular in conflict affected areas, including by supporting protection for women and for children from all forms of sexual and gender-based violence and other violations and abuses, through monitoring and reporting of violations of international humanitarian law and international refugee law and violations and abuses of human rights, urgent implementation of the Framework of Cooperation between the United Nations and the Government of Sudan on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), support to the development and implementation of action plans and a national prevention plan on violations and abuses against children, through women and child protection advisers and supporting the provision of medical, psychosocial, legal and socioeconomic services to all survivors of sexual violence;

Support the mobilisation of economic and development assistance, and coordination of humanitarian and peacebuilding assistance

a. Support coordination with international financial institutions (IFIs) and donors to optimise collectively UN, IFIs and donor resources in support of the Government of Sudan’s national priorities, including the mobilisation of international economic and development assistance;

b. Support, in accordance with the relevant provisions of international law and in line with humanitarian principles, and in close cooperation with humanitarian actors, full, rapid, safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance;

c. Support the coordination of humanitarian assistance, including the Government of Sudan’s facilitation efforts, and through the mobilisation of humanitarian financing;

d. Ensure mobilisation and effective and integrated cooperation of United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, and promote cooperation with relevant partners, including the IFIs and donors, in carrying out, as relevant, the strategic objectives of UNITAMS;

Further decides that, in line with its strategic objectives and support to the Government of Sudan’s national priorities, UNITAMS should prioritise support to the following areas during this mandate period:

i. Ceasefire monitoring in Darfur, in line with the role envisaged for the United Nations in the JPA;

ii. Implementation of the Government of Sudan’s National Plan for Civilian Protection (S/2020/429), including local conflict prevention, mitigation and reconciliation efforts, disarmament, and community violence reduction with a particular focus on inter-communal violence;

iii. Ongoing and future peace negotiations between the Government of Sudan and Sudanese armed groups, including through technical, administrative and logistical assistance, in coordination with other partners;

iv. Inclusive implementation of the power sharing provisions of the JPA, including through facilitating the participation of civil society, women, youth, and internally displaced persons, refugees and members of marginalised communities;

v. The Constitution drafting process, including facilitating the engagement of civil society, and providing technical and logistical support to the establishment of the Constitutional Commission and the holding of the Constitutional Conference;

vi. The SPF and justice sector, through advisory and capacity building support, with the objective of enhancing civilian-led protection, security, and the rule of law;

Requests the Secretary-General to increase swiftly the deployment of personnel to UNITAMS, in order for the Mission to provide effective assistance, within its mandate, to the Government of Sudan;

Reiterates that the cooperation between UNITAMS and its integrated United Nations Country Team (UNCT) partners shall be underpinned by an Integrated Strategic Framework (ISF) or equivalent, and requests UNITAMS and its integrated UNCT to establish an ISF or equivalent within 60 days of adoption of this resolution;

Takes note of the benchmarks and indicators outlined in Annex 1 of the Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Sudan and the activities of UNITAMS (S/2021/470) to track UNITAMS progress against its strategic objectives, welcomes UNITAMS intention to work with the UNCT and the Government of Sudan to establish a baseline and targets for the benchmarks, as well as establishing a robust monitoring and data collection mechanism to track progress against the benchmarks, encourages UNITAMS, in this regard, to also ensure effective engagement with civil society, and requests UNITAMS, in consultation with the UNCT and the Government of Sudan, to identify qualitative indicators to complement the existing indicators that are quantitative in nature;

Welcomes the positive dialogue established between UNITAMS and Sudanese authorities, including the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Justice, in coordination with the Executive Committee for coordination with UNITAMS, regarding capacity building to strengthen the protection of civilians, and, in this regard, requests the Secretary-General to facilitate the deployment of additional individual police officers (IPOs) to UNITAMS;

Requests the Secretary-General, in partnership with all relevant actors, including International Financial Institutions, to support the Government of Sudan in conducting a comprehensive assessment to define the country’s longer term conflict prevention, recovery and peacebuilding needs and in developing relevant strategies to address these needs;

Requests UNITAMS and its integrated UNCT partners to finalise the Sudan Peacemaking, Peacebuilding and Stabilisation Programme (SPPSP) and ensure implementation is sequenced and prioritised, in line with paragraph 3 of this resolution, and is reflective of available resources and personnel at each stage of implementation;

Encourages the Government of Sudan, without prejudice to the mandate of UNITAMS, to engage with the UN Peacebuilding Commission to help bolster international support for Sudan’s peacebuilding process and further inform the Council’s consideration of the situation;

Requests that UNITAMS integrates gender considerations as a cross-cutting issue throughout its mandate and assists the Government of Sudan in ensuring the full, equal and meaningful participation of women at all levels of peace and political processes, and in all social and economic aspects of life, and reaffirms the importance of gender expertise, including the deployment of gender and women protection advisors, gender analysis, including the collection and use of sex- and age-disaggregated data, and capacity-strengthening in executing the mission mandate in a gender-responsive manner, and requests the Secretary-General to include gender analysis in the reports requested in paragraph 19 of this resolution;

Requests the Secretary-General to include information and related recommendations on progress made towards participation of youth in implementation of the JPA in the reports requested in paragraph 19 of this resolution;

Requests UNITAMS to ensure that any support provided to non-United Nations security forces is provided in strict compliance with the Human Rights Due Diligence Policy on United Nations support to non-United Nations security forces;

Welcomes the commitment of the Secretary-General to enforce strictly his zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), requests the Secretary-General to continue to implement a zero-tolerance approach to sexual harassment, further requests the Secretary-General to take all necessary measures to ensure full compliance of all UNITAMS personnel with this policy and approach, stresses the need to prevent such exploitation and abuse and to improve how these allegations are addressed in line with resolution 2272 (2016), urges all member states who contribute uniformed personnel to take appropriate preventative action, including vetting of all personnel, pre-deployment and in-mission awareness training, and ensure full accountability in cases of such conduct involving their personnel, including timely investigations and holding perpetrators to account and further requests the Secretary-General to keep the Council fully informed about the mission’s progress in this regard;

Requests UNITAMS to cooperate with the Panel of Experts on the Sudan established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005) in order to facilitate the Panel’s work;

Urges close coordination among United Nations missions in the region, including the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), and also the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) and the Special Envoy of Secretary-General for the Horn of Africa, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure effective inter-mission cooperation;

Encourages the Government of Sudan to cooperate closely with the African Union on issues of regional peace and security, underlines that a continued strategic and political partnership between the United Nations and the African Union in Sudan remains critical, encourages UNITAMS and the African Union to ensure coherence, coordination and complementarity of their support to Sudan, including through a United Nations-African Union senior level coordination mechanism, and further encourages UNITAMS and the Inter-governmental Authority for Development (IGAD) to also ensure coherence, coordination and complementarity of their support;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Security Council every 90 days on the implementation of the UNITAMS mandate, and on progress made against the benchmarks and indicators in line with paragraph 7 of this resolution;

Decides to remain actively seized of the matter.

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