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AU, NEPAD and the APRM: democratisation efforts explored
The Nordic Africa Institute.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8439-8148
2006 (English)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The African Union (AU) and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) represent an unprecedented collective political effort by African governments at the beginning of the 21st century to address issues of democracy and good governance on a continental scale within an emerging framework of institutions and instruments designed to assist in this effort. The visible commitments to jointly tackle political and socioeconomic challenges in order to overcome the structural legacies that hamper national and social development are reflected in the adoption of a variety of programmatic blueprints and a series of newly created or recently strengthened institutions. The most visible of these since the integration of NEPAD into the AU is the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), a process- aimed at addressing some of the challenges on the basis of a voluntary assessment of African government policies. The contributions to this publication trace these recent developments from a policy perspective and explore the scope and limitations of current democratisation efforts. Going beyond the rhetoric surrounding the emergence of the new initiatives, the authors provide an interim and realistic prognosis of the prospects for these new dynamics to achieve the declared goals of sustainable and meaningful change.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2006. , p. 56
Series
Current African issues, ISSN 0280-2171 ; 32
Keywords [en]
Institutional framework, African organizations, African Union, NEPAD, democratization, governance, Government policy, Development strategy, Legal aspects
National Category
Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-124ISBN: 91-7106-570-9 (electronic)ISBN: 91-7106-569-5 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nai-124DiVA, id: diva2:240536
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CONTENT -- AU, NEPAD, and the APRM – Towards Democratic Change? Introductory Remarks. Henning Melber -- The African Union, Democracy and Good Governance. Charles Manga Fombad -- The African Peer Review Mechanism: Challenges and Prospects. Zein Kebonang and Charles Manga Fombad

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