Funding for the APRM

All funding for a country's self-assessment is the responsibility of the National Government. The APRM Panel and Secretariat are funded by member state contributions to the Mechanism, as well as funds sourced by the AU from African individuals, business and institutions.

The African Peer Review Mechanism Base Document and the APRM: Organization and Process refer specifically to the financing of the APRM. The APRM Base Document states that funding for the mechanism will come from assessed contributions from participating member states. The APRM: Organization and Process requires a five year business plan to be developed for all APRM related operations, and a budget estimate to be submitted to the APRM Forum for approval.

Section 8.2 of the APRM: Organisation and Process, and the communiqué of the 35th Session of the Commission/Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, state that the APRM will be implemented with resources to come predominantly from Africa. The emphasis here is the self-reliance of African states in financing the APRM process.

Whilst external funding partners are not prohibited, the ideal external partnerships are described as those that clearly respect African ownership of the APRM and all its processes. The main allocation of external partnership funding is described at the country Programme of Action level. The APRM therefore is ideally funded directly by participating African states, who assume full ownership of the process; then when a country has generated a comprehensive Programme of Action, external partner funding can be sought.

Participating member countries contribute to the APRM based on specific funding formulas developed by the APR Secretariat and approved by the APR Forum.