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APRM Meeting Opens in Addis
Addis Ababa 29 April 2010 (ECA) - The Governance and Public Administration Division (GPAD) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, is holding an experts group meeting on the deepening best practices contained in the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) in order to advance good governance in Africa.
The two-day meeting opened Wednesday 28 May in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and is being attended by experts and scholars from across Africa who are deeply involved in the APRM process in their respective countries.
Abdalla Hamdok, director of GPAD, opened the meeting stating that it was organized in order to deepen and enrich the intellectual understanding of the genesis and rationale for the APRM within the context of African development thought in the last five decades; and to provide an African perspective to the existing literature on the APRM and other governance initiatives by placing it in its proper historical and contemporary contexts.
“In line with ECA’s best traditions of Africanizing global debates, we hope this meeting would contribute in laying the foundation for further analytical and intellectual work on the multi-dimensional implications of the APRM for Africa in confronting 21st Century Global Challenges: including the financial and economic crises; China’s role in shaping conventional aid paradigms and its implications for African governance; and the impact of Climate Change on African governance,” he said.
He called on the meeting to address fundamental questions about the APRM by looking at its performance so far, the challenges that it has encountered, what it means to the various stakeholders and where the mechanism will take Africa if properly implemented and sustained.
The meeting also observed a moments silence in memory of Dr. Francis Appiah, the Executive Secretary of National APRM Secretariat in Ghana, who tragically passed away last week as he was preparing to join us in this meeting.
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