A Path Way to a New Start? Appraisal on The NEPAD's Peer Review Mechanism

Mekonen, Eyasu (2010) A Path Way to a New Start? Appraisal on The NEPAD's Peer Review Mechanism. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.

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Abstract

Even though most of African co untries have been politica lly indepe ndent from political co lonization the quest for political stability and economic prosperity' was denied by the foreign intervention, the proliferat ion of conflicts, coups and counter coups, corruption and other sever economic mismanagement. The co ntinent of Africa at the dawn of the 2 151 cent ury was still plagued by poverty, disease and ignorance on different social issues. These co ntributed to Africa's peripheral and diminishing status in the world economy which in turn resulted in the marg ina lization of the African cont inent from the world economy. That's why on the turn of the 21 51 ce ntu ry African leaders agreed to change this image of AfTican by replacing the previous organization, OAU, with the new one AU for new hopes, ambitions and commitments. The creat ion of AU as a new African institut ional architecture was supported by the adopting ofNEPAD as a program of action for the new Africa. NEPAD is, AU believes, a vehicle for so lving prevalent problems of bad governance. and provide a new way fo r African deve lopment. The central part ofNEPAD is APRM based on the be lief that no redemption can occur unless African countries engage in some form of self assessme nt, critique through peer review mechanism and some form of mutual accountabilit, to one another and to their people. Thus the main issue of the paper, therefo re, is to anal,'ze and discuss the structural and funct ional capability of APRM whether it can cope up with the mandate its given under different documents to examine the performance of the rev iewed states. The research seeks to address how far and how we ll APRM is performing in its mandated task since its inception in 2003. The writer specifica lly dea ls with whether the APRM, in its cu rrent form and mandate, could be a major regional review mechanism and an instrument in pr0moting democracy, good governance. sustainable development and respect for human rights for .\fi-icans as it claims. The paper aims at unde rstanding the real structure and how far i\PRM has succeeded in fulfilling its purpose in its re latively short li fe span and what needs to be done to be tt er eq uip the mechan ism to achieve it 's desired objectives. The writer approaches the research question by se lecting benchmarks for good peer review fi-om other similar international mecha nisms wl10 usc peer review to monitor compliance and check how well such benchmarks arc being incorporated under the i\PRM.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions:	Africana
Depositing User:	Kabiru Wallace Ndung'u
Date Deposited:	24 Jun 2019 09:36
Last Modified:	24 Jun 2019 09:36
URI:	http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/9282

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