Stakeholders List Measures To Enforce APRM

Stakeholders made u p of civil servants, non-governmental organisations and public officials have given knocks to the poor implementation of the African Peer Review Mechanism, (APRM).

APRM which according to them is the major focus of New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD) has remained a pipe dream because of lack of political will to enforce it.

Speaking at a one day workshop on the Validation of Draft Manual for Monitoring and Evaluation of Nigeria’s National Programme of Action (NPOA), in Port Harcourt.  Mr Tamunoala Bright identified lack of implementation at the local level.

He pointed out that the document has fallen short in the area of budget making process, “we should also look at the budgetary aspect which is clearly missing,” he added.

Mr Bright who is the coordinator of Rivers NGO coalition pointed out that there is lack of state strategic framework to enforce NEPAD stipulations.

Another participant from the Ministry of Housing, Mr Enyindah Meze expressed dissatisfaction over how projects are originated without due consideration to APRM.

He argued that the situation leads to project abandonment and lack of continuity, while stressing the need to evolve measure to check the system through frequent monitoring.

In the view of Joseph Nmerukini with the State Judiciary lack of APRM implementation stems from the huge gap created by inactive committees set  up to monitor activities in different ministries and parastatals.

Since the liaison officers have failed in their duties he maintained that it would be difficult to ensure APRM implementation in government circle.