President Uhuru Kenyatta during thr closing of AU summit.[Photo/PSCU]
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday expressed satisfaction that a continental instrument for monitoring performance made great strides in fostering improved governance as a vehicle for accelerated development in the last two years.
President Kenyatta said the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), which he has chaired for the past two years, is now more rejuvenated than it was before.
The Mechanism’s primary objective is to promote the adoption of policies, values, standards and practices of political and economic governance that lead to political stability, accelerated sub-regional and continental economic integration, economic growth and sustainable development.
“We have made great strides since I took the stewardship of the APRM in June 2015.
These include the revitalisation of the Mechanism.
The membership reached 37 members of the African union, after Gambia acceded at the 27th APR Forum Summit at the weekend,” President Kenyatta said.
President Kenyatta spoke when he presented a report on Africa’s peer review efforts covering the last two years as the 30th Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly came to a close at the AU headquarters in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
Outlining the achievements of his tenure of two years, the President said six countries – Djibouti, Senegal, Chad, Sudan, Kenya and Uganda – were reviewed.