Publication: Strengthening Africa’s governance architecture. Lessons from Lesotho’s first APRM Process (Eldis, 29 Aug 2010)

The African Peer Mechanism (APRM) has been hailed as a timely and apt innovation in Africa’s quest for entrenching democracy and improving governance on the continent. This paper therefore, seeks to assess and discuss some of the key elements of the planning and execution of the baseline APRM country self-assessment exercise, based on the lessons from Lesotho’s self-assessment process. This paper also suggests ways to strengthen the implementation of the APRM self-assessment in the future, which might benefit other countries still to be reviewed.