Synthesis report harmonising APRM-NPoAs and other national plans into a common medium term expenditure framework: experiences from Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda, and Benin

Abstract

The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), Under its auspices each undertook what was almost certainly the most rigorous assessment of the performance of national institutions in the areas of: democracy and political governance, economic governance and management, corporate governance, and socio-economic development. The findings from these assessments then became the basis of the production of a National Program of Action (NPoA) intended to address the challenges discovered during the self-assessment. These two documents, together with independent research conducted by the Continental Secretariat of the APRM fed into a Country Review Report prepared by the Secretariat. These documents were then presented to the APRM Forum, the grouping of African Heads of State whose counties had acceded to the APRM, for discussion by heads of state of countries participating in the APRM. The Peer Review of Africa countries accordingly became the highlight and focal point of the process of the APRM.