52. 非洲联盟成员国还向为非洲联盟主导的和平支助行动提供财政支持的和平基金提供了大量捐款，并为该机制投入运作采取了措施，通过了《关于加强和平基金治理和管理架构的文书》。自 2016 年以来，联合国秘书处和非洲联盟委员会加强了有关为安全理事会授权的非洲和平支助行动建立可持续、可预测的灵活供资机制的努力。根据安理会第 2320(2016)号决议，我在 S/2017/454 号文件所载报告中提出了供资备选方案，随后非洲联盟委员会主席 2017 年 5 月 30 日的报告赞同了这些备选方案，认为方案是就此问题取得进展的可行基础。根据安全理事会第 2378(2017)号决议开展的优先领域工作也继续进行，安理会在该决议中表示打算进一步考虑可采取哪些实际步骤和在哪些必要条件下，根据个案情况由联合国摊款为非洲联盟主导的和平支助行动提供部分经费。
52. African Union member States also made substantial contributions to the Peace Fund, which provides financial support to African Union-led peace support operations, and took steps towards the operationalization of the mechanism with the adoption of the instrument relating to the enhanced governance and management structure of the Peace Fund. Since 2016, the Secretariat of the United Nations and the African Union Commission have strengthened their efforts towards sustainable, predictable and flexible funding mechanisms for African peace support operations authorized by the Security Council. Further to Council resolution 2320 (2016), I proposed funding options in my report contained in document S/2017/454, which were subsequently echoed in a report of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on 30 May 2017 as a viable basis for progress on this issue. Work on priority areas also continues under Security Council resolution 2378 (2017), which expressed the Council’s intention to further consider practical steps and conditions necessary to partly finance African Union-led peace support operations through assessed contributions, on a case-by-case basis.