Governance and APRM: Publications
Governance and APRM: Publications
To order hard copiesof the publications, please contact our publications Department.
New publications
Strategies for Effective Policy Advocacy: Demanding Good Governance in Africa by George Katito and Faten Aggad, SAIIA Research Report No 3, June 2009
Reports from Events
Integrating Governance into University Education: A Workshop for African Academic Experts, 20-21 May 2009
South Africa's Foreign Engagements and Human Rights, 25-26 March 2009
The State of Governance in Africa: Formal Rules, Informal Realities and Strategies for Change, 18-20 November 2008
Learning Lessons from African Peer Review, 12-13 September 2006
SAIIA Occasional Papers by Programme Members
SAIIA's Occasional Papers present topical, incisive analyses, offering a variety of perspectives on key policy issues in Africa and beyond. Core public policy research themes covered by SAIIA include good governance and democracy; economic policy-making; international security and peace; and new global challenges such as food security, global governance reform and the environment.
Socio-economic Problems Facing Africa: Insights from Six APRM Country Review Reports [.pdf] by Terence Corrigan, SAIIA Occasional Paper 34, June 2009
The African Peer Review Mechanism: Assessing Origins, Institutional Relations and Achievements [.pdf] by Steven Gruzd, SAIIA Occasional Paper Number 29, April 2009 French version [.pdf]
Common African Political Governance Issues: Lessons from Six Early APRM Reports [.pdf] by Yarik Turianskyi , SAIIA Occasional Paper Number 28, March 2009 French version [.pdf]
Addressing the African Peer Review Mechanism's Programmes of Action [.pdf] by Faten Aggad, SAIIA Occasional Paper Number 5, June 2008 French Version
Understanding APRM Research: Planning, Process and Politics. A Practical Handbook for Peer Review Research [.pdf] by George Katito, SAIIA Occasional Paper Number 4, June 2008 French version [.pdf]
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Books
The African Peer Review Mechanism: Lessons from the Pioneers by Ross Herbert and Steven Gruzd
Now availble to download for free.
The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is an innovative approach to improving African governance. It offers important opportunities for public dialogue but has proved politically and logistically challenging. The first in-depth study of the APRM, this ground-breaking book analyses the evolving peer review process in the first five countries.
The product of a five-year research and training programme, it combines in-depth analysis of the APRM rules with an insightful evaluation of the political and social dynamics. Drawing on extensive interviews across the continent, it offers sounds recommendations to strengthen the process and deepen public participation. An invaluable resource for civil society and governments, this volume includes an interactive APRM Toolkit CD-ROM with the official APRM guidelines, final country reports, survey instruments, academic papers, video testimonials and a comprehensive collection of the governance codes and standards embraced by the APRM.
Mastering the APRM: Creating Your Submission
by Terence Corrigan
This booklet is intended to help civil society groups who want to make a written input into their local APRM process. This step-by-step handbook explains why the APRM should matter to civil society, how to write a convincing, evidence-based submission, and offers advice on distributing the document.
The handbook is available for download in the following languages:
English version [.pdf]
French version [.pdf]
APRM Governance Standards: An Indexed Collection
The APRM cites some 81 African and global standards that are the basis of its governance reviews.
This indexed collection is, at 604 pages, the most complete collection of African governance standards available anywhere. The downloadable files are 3MB. To download this file, click here.
Hard copies can be purchased for R300 plus shipping and handling.
Planning an Effective Peer Review: A Guidebook for National Focal Points
This concise guide to the APRM (African Peer Review Mechanism) is available in French and English.
Based on SAIIA’s extensive work on APRM and originally produced for a training seminar run jointly with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, this guidebook takes the reader through the institutions and processes of peer review, and gives advice on how best to approach and run the process.
The guidebook is available for download in the following languages:
English version [.pdf]
French version [.pdf]
Portuguese version [.pdf]
Influencing APRM: A Checklist for Civil Society
This guidebook provides practical strategies and advice to help civil society organisations to enhance their participation in the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). Based on lessons from the early countries, civil society should seek to influence each stage of the process, using networking, persuasion, participation as well as the media and public pressure, and develop plans to target the many players involved at both national and continental levels.
The guidebook is available for download in the following languages:
English version. [.pdf]
French version. [.pdf]
Portuguese version. [.pdf]
Additional Papers and Publications
Integrating Governance Education into University Education in Africa: Perspectives, Challenges and Lessons, by Tšoeu Petlane, SAIIA Occasional Paper No.43, September 2009
Strategies for Effective Policy Advocacy: Demanding Good Governance in Africa by George Katito and Faten Aggad, SAIIA Research Report No 3, June 2009
Expert Report South Africa [.pdf] by Terence Corrigan, for the confernce on Shaping a Globalized World - Global Policy Council, Berlin, 12-13 March 2009
Socio-Economic Problems Facing Africa: Insights from Six APRM Country Review Reports [.pdf] by Terence Corrigan, SAIIA Occasional Paper 34, June 2009
The African Peer Review Mechanism: Assessing Origins, Institutional Relations and Achievements [.pdf] by Steven Gruzd, SAIIA Occasional Paper Number 29, April 2009
Common African Political Governance Issues: Lessons from Six Early APRM Reports [.pdf] by Yarik Turianskyi , SAIIA Occasional Paper Number 28, March 2009 French version [.pdf]
Africa's evolving governance architecture: Reflections on the African Peer Review Mechanism [.pdf] by Steven Gruzd, Centre for Policy Studies Policy Brief Number 54, January 2009
Instiutionalising Governance Evidence: Experiences of Think Tanks in the African Peer Review Mechanism [.pdf] by Steven Gruzd, 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
Challenges of Structuring a Productive Investment Climate: The Policy Framework for Investment and SME Development [.pdf] by Ross Herbert, for NEPAD-OECD Africa Investment Intitiative, December 2008
Addressing the African Peer Review Mechanism's Programmes of Action [.pdf] by Faten Aggad, SAIIA Occasional Paper Number 5, June 2008 French Version
Understanding APRM Research: Planning, Process and Politics. A Practical Handbook for Peer Review Research [.pdf] by George Katito, SAIIA Occasional Paper Number 4, June 2008 French version [.pdf]
Taking Stock of the African Peer Review Mechanism [.pdf] by Ross Herbert and Steven Gruzd as published in the SAIIA South African Journal of International Affairs Volume 14, Issue 1, Summer/Autumn 2007.
Peace, Securtity and the African Peer Review Mechanism: Are the Tools up to the Task? [.pdf] by Steven Gruzd, paper for the Institute of Security Studies' African Security Review, Volume 16, No 3, September 2007
Reflection Document for the African Governance Institute (AGI) Thematic Anchors Meeting 1-2 June 2007 [.pdf] by Steven Gruzd.
Parliament, Oversight and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM): Experiences from South Africa [.pdf] by Steven Gruzd (Paper for the Association of Public Accounts Conference, Bloemfontein, 9 October 2006)
Africa's Trailblazer: Ghana and the APRM [.pdf] by Steven Gruzd, Service Delivery Review, Vol 4 No 3, 2006, A Learning Journal for Public Service Managers
Working Together: Assessing Public-Private Partnerships in Africa [.pdf] by Peter Farlam, SAIIA Nepad Policy Focus Report 2, 2005
Back to the Blackboard: Looking Beyond Universal Primary Education in Africa [.pdf] edited by Peroshni Govender and Steven Gruzd, SAIIA Nepad Policy Focus Report 1, 2004
The Survival of Nepad and the African Peer Review Mechanism: A Critical Analysis [.pdf] by Ross Herbert, as published in the SAIIA South African Journal of International Affairs Volume 11, Issue 1, Summer/Autumn 2004.
