Assembly/AU/Dec.631(XXVIII) Page 1 DECISION ON THE REVITALISATION OF THE AFRICAN PEER REVIEW MECHANISM The Assembly, 1. TAKES NOTE of the Reports of the Special Summit of the Forum of Heads of States and Government of the African Peers Review Mechanism (APRM) held on 29 January 2016 on the Revitalization of the African Peer Review Mechanism; 2. CONGRATULATES the Chairperson of the APR Forum for convening the Special Summit of the APR Forum with the theme ‘Revitalizing the APRM to Strengthen Governance in Africa’ and APR Forum Members for their active participation; 3. RECALLS Decision Assembly/AU/Dec.527(XXIII) adopted by the 23rdOrdinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on the Integration of the APRM into the African Union structures; 4. ACKNOWLEDGES progress made in the implementation of the Integration decision and actions taken by the Chairperson of the AU Commission and APRM Secretariat to fast track the process; 5. WELCOMES the Report of the Committee on Revitalizationof the APRM anchored on the revitalization agenda driven by H.E President Uhuru Kenyatta; 6. WELCOMES and SUPPORTS the recommendation contained in the Report on the Institutional Reform of the African Union by H.E Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda, that the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) should be strengthened to track implementation and oversee monitoring and evaluation in key governance areas on the continent, and REQUESTSthe APRM to take necessary steps towards the attainment of this goal; 7. EMBRACES the positive contributions and recommendations emanating from the January Special Summit of the Forum of Heads of States and Government debate on the Revitalization of the APRM, and WELCOMES commitment towards the revitalization of APRM, key among them: (i) Repositioning of the APRM to play a monitoring and evaluation role for the African Union Agenda 2063 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2030; (ii) Widening the APRM approach from the current narrow minded approach to capture local, homegrown and indigenous knowledge embedded in the African culture; (iii) Refocusing the APRM as an innovative tool for sharing best practices regionally and globally; 28th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union, 30 - 31 January 2017, Addis Ababa