Unified Focus, formerly known as Central Accord, is designed to exercise and assess Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) nations and western partner nations' capabilities encountering terrorism and violent extremist organizations (VEOs) while building Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) capacity promoting national and regional security and shaping security force assistance efforts (SFA.)

UF17 will be conducted in Doula, Cameroon and include the nations of Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria.