Speaker of the National Assembly, Hon. Prof. Peter Katjavivi (right) receiving the report from APRM Namibia Chief Executive Officer, Ambassador Lineekela Mboti.
The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) National Secretariat led by its Chief Executive Officer, Ambassador Lineekela Mboti visited the Speaker of the National Assembly, Hon. Prof. Peter Katjavivi today, to present the APRM Namibia Country Review Report.
Ambasador Mboti informed the Speaker that the APRM Namibia Country Review Report was Namibia’s first peer review report launched in 2022 and that the handover of the report to the Parliament of Namibia was intended for the implementation of the National Plan of Action through the various Parliamentary Standing Committees.
Speaker Katjavivi, who promised to table the report in the National Assembly early next year, hailed APRM noting that efforts are being made to mobilise extra budgetary resources for parliamentary standing committees to perform their oversight duties and confront challenges such as youth unemployment.
The report emanates from the country self assessment report submitted by APRM Namibia to the APRM Continental secretariat in 2021 that led to a team of experts in governance from 11 peer countries in Africa visiting Namibia from 25 october to 10 November 2021 to look at governance challenges and good practices.
The African Peer Review Mechanism is a voluntary and self-monitoring mechanism initiative between African Union member states, Civil society and the private sector intended to address pertinent socio economic challenges and improve governance and best practices through self-monitoring of all aspects of governance. The review is centered on four thematic areas of democracy and political governance, economic governance and management, corporate governance and socio economic development.
Namibia joined the APRM in 2017.
