Resource
Mutual Review and the Promotion of Developmental Governance in Africa
Producer:
Africa Governance Institute
Publication year:
2010
Source of the information:
Africa Governance Institute
The latest newsletter from the Africa Governance Institute contains an article written by Moise Nembot, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Co-ordinator for Democracy and Political Governance, entitled "The Mutual Review and the Promotion of Developmental Governance in Africa". Among other concepts, this article discusses the APRM as a new approach through which populations identify their problems and determine the priorities in terms of actions to be undertaken, in order to tackle them before submitting them for assistance to development partners. Nembot argues that this constitutes a new approach to governance that should emulate public aid policy for African development in the 21st century.
The Mutual Review is a consultative mechanism between Africa and the OECD countries. It serves to assess progress in the implementation of commitments made to reach the objectives set. Initiated by the Follow-up Committee of heads of States and Governments of NEPAD, the peer review concept was developed by the ECA and OECD in the period 2002-2004.
This concept that refers to the harmonisation and the effectiveness of development aid for Africa touches on one of the principles of accountability of aid, i.e. the surrender of accounts and the imputation, not only to the beneficiary of aid, but also to the donor who must demonstrate that aid allocated has been well targeted and has served the targeted populations. Thus bi- or multilateral donors are considered as stakeholders in governance in the same way as other actors in society.
