Making the Mechanism Work: A View from the African Union

The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) is an African Union(AU) mandated programme. The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is at the heart of the AU’s drive for a broad vision of African rejuvenation and renewal that encompasses peace, security, governance issues, socio-economic development and regional co-operation and reconstruction. This mission impresses upon us the need to put our ouse in order as a basis for autocentered development and as a framework for productive engagement with the rest of the international community. The two objectives are intertwined.