The 14th AU Summit

The 14th African Union Summit took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 31 January to 2 February 2010. Its theme was “Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Development”. At the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Forum, held just before the Summit, South Africa presented its second report on the country's implementation of the APRM.

SAIIA’s Governance and APRM Programme, which aims to stimulate public debate and scholarship about critical governance and development questions in Africa, has prepared an assessment of South Africa’s first APRM implementation report, presented in January 2009. This analysis is available for download below, along with selected other pieces of work produced by this programme:

• Peer Review Should be Seen as a Self-Improvement Exercise for SA (SAIIA Op-Ed) (February 2010)
• Off Track? Findings from South Africa’s First APRM Implementation Report (SAIIA Occasional Paper 53) (January 2010)
• The African Peer Review Mechanism: Lessons from the Pioneers (SAIIA Book) (Full text available for download in English and French)
• Human Rights in Foreign Policy and Practice: The South African Case Considered (SAIIA Occasional Paper 52) (November 2009)
• Integrating Governance Education into University Education in Africa: Perspectives, Challenges and Lessons(SAIIA Occasional Paper 43) (September 2009)
• Whither Human Rights in African International Relations? (SAIIA Occasional Paper 39) (August 2009)