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BACKGROUND
The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is a self-monitoring mechanism established in 2003 by Heads of State and Government, to which member states of the African Union voluntarily accede. Its purpose and mandate are spelled out in the Declaration on Democracy, Political, Economic and Corporate Governance adopted by the African Heads of State and Government at the inaugural Session of the Assembly of the African Union in Durban, South Africa, in 2002.
APRM Continetal Secretariat intends to procure the services of experienced Consultants to undertake the Country Review in the thematic areas of Democracy and Political Governance (DPG), Economic Governance and Management (EGM), Socio-Economic Development (SED), and Corporate Governance(CG).
OBJECTIVES
The Objectives of the Country Review Mission (CRM) is to visit the relevant APRM member state and carry out the widest possible range of consultations with the Government officials, political parties, parliamentarians, academia, trade unions, faith-based organizations, business, professional bodies, and others on Democracy and Political Governance (DPG), Economic Governance and Management (EGM), Socio-Economic Development (SED), and Corporate Governance(CG). issues.
SCOPE OF THE ASSIGNMENT
The Consultancy service shall commence upon signing the contract and the duration for each assignment is estimated at two to three weeks. It is anticipated that there shall be about six-four (4) country reviews to be undertaken during the year 2022.
Interested consultants may obtain further information or clarification through email: tenderinfo@aprm-au.org
Details of respective qualifications & experience can be downloaded below.
Kindly note that this is not an advertisement of the NEPAD/APRM Kenya Secretariat but that of the APRM Continental Secretariat. NEPAD/APRM Kenya Secretariat shall not forward applications sent to it to the APRM Continental Secretariat.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (SED)
]]>A team drawn from the continental APRM Secretariat in Midrand, South Africa is in the country for a sensitization meeting with NEPAD/APRM Kenya Secretariat on the targeted review.
The APRM Conducts five types of reviews namely:
Base Review: Carried out immediately, once a country becomes a member of the APRM
Periodic Review: Every four years
Requested Review: Requested by the member country itself outside the framework of mandated reviews
A Review commissioned by the APR Forum: When there are early signs of pending political and economic crisis
Targeted Reviews– A new approach to deepen reviews and enhance the relevance
Kenya’s case
This review is a thematic review; it doesn’t involve a review of the four APRM themes which are Democracy and Political Governance, Economic Governance and Management, Corporate Governance, and Socioeconomic Development.
Dr. Hope Kivengere, APRM Panel Member in charge for Kenya addresses the press at a Mombasa hotel on Kenya’s targetted review. She is joined by APRM Continental Secretariat’s CEO Prof. Eddy Maloka (far left) and NAKS CEO Amb. Dr. Samori Okwiya (second from right) and NAKS Director of APRM & Governance Mr. Peter Kimemia.
Kenya will be reviewed on the Big 4 Agenda (affordable housing, manufacturing, universal health care, and food security).
The implementation of the Big 4 Agenda aims at directing investments to the projects and policies that will accelerate economic growth and transform lives by creating jobs, enabling Kenyans to meet their basic needs, improve health standards, improve living conditions, lower cost of living, and reduce poverty and inequality under the agriculture, manufacturing, health and housing sectors.
H.E. President Uhuru Kenyatta, during the launch of Kenya’s 2nd Country Review Report (CRR) at State House, Nairobi in March 2019, expressed his desire to undertake a targeted review on the Big 4 Agenda and cross-cutting issues identified in the CRR report. This process will culminate into the President being peer-reviewed in February 2022 during the AU Summit before his term in office ends.
Namibia, Djibouti, Zambia, and Sierra Leone have had their countries undergo a targeted review. Other states expected to have the targeted review are Uganda, Ghana, and Senegal.
]]>This was evident during the monitoring and evaluation exercise done by NEPAD/APRM Kenya secretariat at the Moyale One-Stop Border Office on 2nd June 2021.
The Secretariat’s team led by the CEO Amb. Dr. Samori Okwiya held a meeting with the Moyale Border Management Committee and the LAPSSET Isiolo- Marsabit Regional Coordinator Mr. Abdub Nagele at Moyale OSBP where the opportunities and challenges affecting the operationalization of the border post were noted.
Among the challenges posed are porous borders along the 800 kilometer stretch of the Kenya-Ethiopia border, lack of a harmonized bilateral agreement to operate between the border points, and unavailability of the Kenya Bureau of Standards laboratory.
However, according to the OSBP Managing Director, Mr. Joel Ndenge, since the launch of Moyale OSBP, there has been improved cross-border security, a reduction in revenue leakages as well as better resource utilization through improved cross-border cooperation.
Amb. Dr. Okwiya on the other hand affirmed the Secretariat’s commitment to coordinate the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement in the region which LAPSSET Corridor programme is an enabler.
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Global Human Development Report, 2020 has been launched in Nairobi.
Themed Human Development and the Anthropocene, Expanding Human Freedoms in Balance with The Planet, the report highlights how human development destroys the environment. For instance, it gives a case of negative human development in the environment which has led to the emergence of deadly viruses such as Ebola and Covid-19 which have been a result of an animal to human viral transfer. At the same time, the report gives recommendations on how planetary balance can be maintained whilst maintaining sustainable development on the planet.
Recommendations
The report offers building block mechanisms that will ensure that sustainable development and preservation of the ecosystem is achieved in the face of human development on the planet.
The building blocks are:
- Nature-based solutions that aim at creating awareness that there is no distinction between humans and nature but rather the two are intertwined. This, therefore, makes humans practice sustainable use of natural resources
- Incentives development by countries as monitoring and evaluating the length at which respective countries consumes fossil fuels
- Adoption of new norms in the consumption of natural resources whilst ensuring low carbon emission
The NGR is an effective and user-friendly tool with which individual African countries regularly assess themselves and report on their respective states of national level governance. The consolidation of various country NGRs in African countries would be aggregated to form the Africa Governance Report (AGR).
The activity will cover all the 47 counties in the country where focus group discussions and key informant interviews will form the primary source of data required. The data collected will be compared with various monitoring and evaluation reports published by the national and county government and the findings will constitute Kenya’s National Governance Report (NGR).
Specifically, NGRs seek to:
a) Provide credible, up-to-date and reliable data on governance
issues for both national, regional, continental and
international stakeholders;
b) Promote citizens centred governance as strategy of
strengthening democracy, accountability and inclusiveness;
c) Assist in identifying new trends in governance both at the
national, county and continental level;
d) Provide the basis for measuring progress or regress in
governance;
e) Enable the formulation of realistic and actionable
recommendations for the improvement of governance;
f) Enable the identification of best practices that could be shared
among AU Member States, and devolved structures among
many others; and
g) Engage all government stakeholders in generating data and
conducting self-assessment.
Kenya’s Context
Since independence, successive regimes have strived to deliver welfare to the citizens, with each regime committing to various local, national and global development initiatives, with varied outcomes. Currently, Kenya Vision 2030 is one such commitment. It was launched in 2008. It is a long-term strategy for the attainment of a ‘newly industrializing, middle-income country providing a high quality of life to all its citizens by 2030 in a clean and secure environment.’
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The virtual training exercise is being held at a Nairobi Hotel and shall conclude tomorrow 16th December 2020.The capacity building exercise targets Economist and Statisticians from planning departments in various ministries and departments. The objective of the training is to respond to the needs of the African Continent and to strengthen capacities for the integration of Agenda 2063 and SDGs into national plans and tracking their implementation.
Amb. Dr. Samori Okwiya – CEO, NEPAD Kenya Secretariat (right) and Taubman Olang’ – Director NEPAD Program following up proceedings during the training exercise on Integrated Planning and Reporting Toolkit.
The toolkit is designed to align the output/outcome, targets, and indicators of the development plan to ensure a harmonized reporting structure amongst African states in tracking the progress of implementation.
]]>The NEPAD/APRM Kenya Secretariat (NAKS) is undertaking a two-day national sensitization workshop on the County Peer Review Mechanism at a Naivasha hotel.
Among the guests invited to the sensitization exercise are County Secretaries and CECs in-charge of devolution/coordination of public participation docket in the counties, representatives from Council of Governors (CoG), and Strategic Partners.
The sensitization exercise will pave way for the implementation of the County Peer Review Mechanism in the counties in an effort to promote good governance as well as accelerated socio-economic development.
James Wagala, M&E Specialist, UNDP Kenya giving his remarks during the sensitization exercise of the County Peer Review Mechanism
This initiative has the full support from the highest levels of leadership at both national and county levels of government. Most of the counties have already expressed their readiness to participate in the county reviews that will be pitched at the level of the Governors.
A key output of today’s engagement will be a roadmap outlining dates
within which the reviews will be conducted.
Participants during the sensitization exercise of the County Peer Review Mechanism at the Burch Resort.
16th September, 2020
Bomet County Governor Hillary Barchok has committed to have Bomet County be reviewed under the County Peer Review Mechanism.
The Governor, while meeting a team from NEPAD/APRM Kenya Secretariat in his offices today, has committed to the review mechanism citing inconsistencies in reviews done by other independent agencies.
“There is lack of balance in reviews done to counties by independent agencies thus making it confusing for counties to know where they truly are,” he said.
“Such independent reviews don’t offer the platform for counties to learn from each other,” he added.
County Peer Review Mechanism (CPRM) is a voluntary governance “self-assessment” by Kenyan counties to share experiences, reinforce best practices, identify deficiencies, and assess capacity building needs to foster policies, standards and practices that lead to political stability, high economic growth, sustainable development and accelerated county economic integration.
The mechanism was developed by the Secretariat in collaboration with numerous state agencies. It borrows from the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) which is a continental review mechanism for Heads of State and Governments.
Kenya was first reviewed under the mechanism in 2006 under the leadership of former president H.E. Mwai Kibaki. In 2017, Kenya was the first country in Africa to be reviewed the second time under the leadership of H.E. President Uhuru Kenyatta.
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Two teams from the Secretariat visited Kwale and Narok Counties on 14th September 2020 and they were led by NGC Members Hon. Elias Mbau and Mr. Michael Kisilu respectively.
Dissemination of the Country Review Report is the last stage of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) process. APRM process is an important framework for good governance in Africa aimed at championing transformative leadership through the sharing of experience amongst member countries.
In Kwale county, the team was received by the Deputy County Commissioner Mr. Alexander Mativo, who ushered them into H. E Governor Salim Mvurya’s office for a courtesy call. The governor shared the success stories of Kwale County which has been enabled by devolution.
In Narok County, the team was received by the County Commissioner Mr. Evans Achoki before meeting the county leadership and lastly engaging the public, non-state actors and officials from both levels of government on the report at Maasai Mara University amphitheater.
The Report
Kenya is the first country to submit voluntarily to a second comprehensive governance review. Kenya was first reviewed in 2006 under the leadership of the former president H.E. Mwai Kibaki.
In the second review, Kenya has been commended for various developments, key among them being the promulgation of the Kenya Constitution, 2010 that ushered in the devolved system of government.
Despite the achievements, the report highlights areas that the country needs to improve on including persistent corruption, gender imbalance, insecurity and terrorism.
Peer Reviews
The Secretariat in collaboration with numerous state agencies has established a County Peer Review Mechanism (CPRM) as a way of cascading the APRM and governance principles to the counties and ensuring implementation of the National Program of Action.
CPRM is a voluntary governance “self-assessment” by Kenyan counties to share experiences, reinforce best practices, identify deficiencies, and assess capacity building needs to foster policies, standards and practices that lead to political stability, high economic growth, sustainable development and accelerated county economic integration.
Both Kwale and Narok counties have committed to be reviewed once the CPRM is rolled out because it will give an accurate account of the progress made by the counties since the start of devolution. CPRM also offers a unique platform for mutual learning for the counties.
Narok County commissioner Evans Achoki further called for peer review and mutual learning among government institutions.
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