Steven Gruzd

Steven Gruzd

Head of the Governance and APRM Programme

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Areas of Research Expertise:
- The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) and governance
- African politics and development
- Conflict and peace studies

Background:
Steven Gruzd became the Head of SAIIA's Governance and APRM Programme on 1 May 2008. Before that, he was the Deputy Head from October 2006, and the Research Manager on SAIIA's Nepad and Governance Programme from April 2003. He worked as a researcher and then research co-ordinator at the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) from 1999-2003. He holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in International Relations and an Honours and BA Degree from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Language:
Fluent English, good Afrikaans, beginner's French and Hebrew.

Recent publications:

Gruzd S, Ten Reasons to Keep Faith with Africa's Peer Review Process, SAIIA Policy Briefing No 17, May 2010

Gruzd S, "Reflections on the African Peer Review Mechanism", chapter in Hannam M and J Wolff, Southern Africa: 2020 Vision, e9 Publishing, London, April 2010

Corrigan T & S Gruzd, “Monitoring ourselves: The APRM as a catalyst for accountability”, chapter in Ayer V, M Claasen M & C Alpin-Lardies (eds), Social Accountability in Africa: Practitioners’ Experiences and Lessons, Affiliated Network on Social Accountability-Africa (ANSA-A) and Idasa, Pretoria, 2010

Gruzd S, Y Turianskyi & H Maihack, "Mainstreaming the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) National Programme of Action (NPoA) into National Development Strategies/Plans: Towards a Common, Unifying Framework for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS), and the APRM NPoA. South African Case Study," United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Ababa, 2010

Gruzd S, “Comparative Analysis of Civil Society Engagement in the APRM: Economic Governance and Management”, chapter in Masterson G, K Busia and A Jinadu (eds), Peering the Peers: Civil Society and the African Peer Review Mechanism, Electoral Institute of Southern Africa (EISA), Johannesburg, 2010

Gruzd S, E Sidiropoulos & G Katito, “South Africa’s Role in Providing Development Assistance to Zimbabwe: Policy Options and Strategies”, chapter in forthcoming book Zimbabwe: Picking up the Pieces, to be published by Palgrave McMillan, Canada, 2010

Gruzd S (summarised by), SAIIA Roundtable: The African Peer Review Mechanism - Progress and Prospects, SAIIA Occasional Paper Number 59, April 2010

Herbert R & S Gruzd, Le Mécanisme africain d’évaluation par les pairs : Leçons des Pionniers, SAIIA, November 2009.

Gruzd S, Le Mécanisme africain d’évaluation par les pairs : Evaluer les origines, les relations institutionnelles et les réalisations, SAIIA Occasional Paper Number 29, April 2009 [French]

Gruzd S,The African Peer Review Mechanism: Assessing Origins, Institutional Relations and Achievements, SAIIA Occasional Paper Number 29, April 2009.

Gruzd S, Africa's evolving governance architecture: Reflections on the African Peer Review Mechanism, Centre for Policy Studies Policy Brief Number 54, January 2009.

Gruzd S, Instiutionalising Governance Evidence: Experiences of Think Tanks in the African Peer Review Mechanism, final draft for the UNDP Oslo Governance Centre's conference 'Evidence into policy: The role of think tanks and research institutes', Cairo, Egypt, 18-19 January 2009.

Herbert R & S Gruzd, The African Peer Review Mechanism: Lessons from the Pioneers, SAIIA, March 2008.

Herbert R & S Gruzd, 'Taking Stock of the African Peer Review Mechanism', South African Journal of International Affairs, Volume 14, Number 1, Summer/Autumn 2007.

Gruzd S, 'Peace, security and the African Peer Review Mechanism: Are the tools up to the task?' African Security Review, Volume 16, Number 3, Institute for Security Studies, September 2007.

Herbert R & S Gruzd, Planning an Effective Peer Review: A Guidebook for National Focal Points, SAIIA, February 2007.

Gruzd S, Parliament, Oversight and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM): Experiences from South Africa, paper for the Association of Public Accounts Committees (APAC) Conference, Bloemfontein, 9 October 2006.

Gruzd S, Africa's Trailblazer: Ghana and the APRM, Service Delivery Review, Vol 4 No 3, 2006, A Learning Journal for Public Service Managers

 Govender P & S Gruzd (eds), Back to the Blackboard: Looking Beyond Universal Primary Education in Africa, SAIIA, 2005.

Draper P & S Gruzd (eds), 'Africa After Cancun: Trade Negotiations in Uncertain Times', SAIIA Trade Policy Report, Number 2, November 2003.