Transparency and the APRM

Steven Gruzd, Africa's pre-eminent APRM watcher, has filled in some of the details of the APRM meeting held in Benin last weekend (see my earlier post). In so doing, he also pointed to the difficulties of getting meaty details on the process: "Tracking progress and highlighting achievements is currently almost entirely left to the national level. Transparency would be enhanced if these reports were routinely lodged on APRM websites and distributed in hard copy as well, including to national and regional parliaments, and to the media." Read his comments!