The South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) and the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) will host a scoping workshop entitled “Developing the capacity of civil society to track the implementation of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) ".
Minister for Public Service and Administration, Mr Richard Baloyi as South Africa's focal point to the APRM will deliver the keynote address at the workshop to take place on 12 to 13 October 2010 at SAIIA’s head office at Jan Smuts House, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
The peer review mechanism was established in 2003 as an innovative instrument aimed at improving governance in Africa, created and driven by Africans for Africans. Through a series of voluntary governance reviews, member states aim at collectively improving governance on the continent through sharing best practices and following recommendations made by the APRM Panel of Eminent Persons. The intention of these reviews is to spur reform at the end of the review each country embarks on implementing a National Programme of Action (NPoA), according to which it carries out pre-agreed commitments aimed at improving governance.
SAIIA and CPS have launched a project to empower civil society in Southern African APRM states to track the implementation of the APRM in their countries, known as the APRM Monitoring Project (AMP). Through this project, civil society organisations will be assisted to develop independent reviews of APRM implementation through the use of an APRM Monitoring and Evaluation Tool (AMET). The AMET is not intended to duplicate the work of the relevant national APRM agencies, but to complement and expand upon existing M&E processes.
During this scoping workshop, a draft of AMET will be presented in order to receive feedback, so as to refine and improve the method for tracking and evaluating NPoAs. In addition, other key elements of the AMP will be shared and discussed.
All media are invited as follows:
Venue: Jan Smuts House - Johannesburg
Date: Tuesday, 12 October 2010 to Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Time: 08h30 to 15h30
For more information and to RSVP, please contact:
Lebohang Mafokosi:
Cell: 082 312 4641
E-mail: lebohangm@dpsa.gov.za
Philile Ntuli
Cell: 082 883 2335
E-mail: phililen@dpsa.gov.za
