Civil Society and the APRM

Civil society participation in the APRM process is essential to ensure the validity and legitimacy of the process, as well as fulfill the requirements outlined in the APRM's official documentation. However, maintaining constant engagement with the APRM processes in a country can be extremely costly in terms of both human and financial resources. Given that many civil society organizations, and even more informal civil society tend to be severely constrained due to a lack of both these resources, this section aims to highlight five potential areas of engagement in the APRM process, depending on the nature of the organization.

• Background to civil society participation
• Areas of CSO engagement
• CSO contributions to national processes

For more information see MASTERSON, G 2007 Defining Civil Society in the Context of the African Peer Review Mechanism.