Among the critical policies initiated by the Urugwiro debates, the following issues were highlighted:2: ‘…establishment of national commissions and other institutions of accountability to address critical problems; initiation of the decentralisation policy and reform of public institutions; the Vision 2020 and the elaboration of the Constitution’. [...] In this respect, the concept of mutual accountability pre-supposes that there is a need to ensure: that the recipient government is accountable to donors in the execution of programmes and policies that rely on external resources; that donors are accountable to governments in terms of the quality and quantity of the aid they provide and for interventions in the development of recipient countri. [...] Under the direction of the APR Panel, the APR Secretariat forwards to the country to be reviewed, a questionnaire covering the four focus areas of the APRM. [...] This phase allows the Mission to learn about the different perspectives of the stakeholders; to clarify the issues identified in the Issues Paper that are not taken into account in the preliminary POA of the country; and to build consensus on how these could be addressed. [...] The ultimate goal of the APRM was to assist the reviewed country to improve its policy-making processes, adopt best practices from other countries, and comply with ratified standards and codes, such as the Constitutional Act of the African Union (2000), the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (1990), the NEPAD Framework Document (2001), the APRM Organisation and Process (2003)., and to in.
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