Implementation

Once a country self-assessment report, with comments from the APR country review team and APR Panel have been adopted by the APR Forum, the country commits itself to the final Programme of Action (POA) adopted in the report. The final POA specifies a timeframe for all the objectives and activities it details, which can be anywhere between 3-5 years. The major objective of the POA is to bridge the governance gaps identified in the country's self-assessment and improve the country's governance standards and practices by drawing on and learning from the shared experiences of the country's peers (other APRM signatories).

It is important to note that the Programme of Action is drafted by the country's national structures, in consultation with a number of other national stakeholders, which ensures that the POA is nationally owned. This is not a prescriptive process of reforms such as the historical conditionalities attached to aid packages from the International Monetary Fund, but rather a nationally-owned process which aims at promoting a sense of national pride and collective effort to improve the country's governance practices. The POA is devised by the country itself, taking into account its unique political, economic, corporate and socio-economic background and formulating its strategy accordingly.