IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/b/zbw/diestu/45.html
   My bibliography  Save this book

The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) as a tool to improve governance: experience in Ghana

Author

Listed:
  • Grimm, Sven
  • Nawrath, Kristin
  • Roth, Robert
  • Triebel, Simon
  • Utz, Britta

Abstract

The quality of governance in Africa is particularly in discussion since the end of the Cold War. In 2002, African states created the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) with the declared goal to improve governance on the continent. Around half of Africa’s states have agreed on conducting a self-assessment and discuss this with other heads of state and government. Ghana was the front runner in this process. As the first county to undergo an APRM, Ghana applied and also shaped the rules of the APRM. The aim of this study, which is the final report of a working group conducted in Ghana, is to look into the experience with the APRM in Ghana. Research was based on numerous interviews with stakeholders in the Ghanaian APRM, namely government officials, the national APRM secretariat, non-state actors and representatives of civil society. The study assesses the potential impact of the APRM on governance by considering the rigour or flexibility of its legal framework, the openness to participation in the self-assessment of Ghana, and the quality of the Ghanaian APRM report. It also takes a first look into whether recommendations of the report were implemented. From this analysis, the study assesses the APRM’s potential for improving governance in Ghana and provides recommendations for APRM stakeholders and donors.

Suggested Citation

  • Grimm, Sven & Nawrath, Kristin & Roth, Robert & Triebel, Simon & Utz, Britta, 2009. "The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) as a tool to improve governance: experience in Ghana," IDOS Studies, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), volume 45, number 45, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:diestu:45
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/199170/1/die-study-45.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:zbw:diestu:45. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ditubde.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.