Resource
Reviewing Africa’s Peer Review Mechanism
Producer:
Adotey Bing-Pappoe
Publication year:
2010
Source of the information:
Partnership Africa Canada The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) was launched in 2003 as one of the pillars of NEPAD. More than half of Africa’s countries (with three-quarters of its population) have joined the APRM. Of these, at least half have set about the process of studying and reforming their political, economic and corporate governance, and socio-economic development. How successful have they been? Is the APRM living up to the high expectations placed in it?
It’s at the country level, however, that the value of the APRM should be measured and this report seeks to do this. The overall picture is generally positive, as the report’s analysis will show. Dialogue between stakeholders is occurring and changes are being introduced to the ways governments and countries are being run. There is peer learning, as experiences from one country are being introduced to others. But the pace of learning and the pace of change are slow. The APRM has to be changed itself to make it more straightforward and more efficient. Human and financial resources must be increased at the national level to help countries carry out their evaluations successfully and, more importantly, implement the priority actions that are agreed on.
