Assembly/AU/ Decl.1(XVI) Page 3 7. We further encourage efforts directed at enhancing the participation of African Research Institutes, Universities, Civil Society and the Media in promoting Shared Values as part of wider efforts directed at securing African ownership. 8. We call on the AUC and other Organs to establish African ownership over Shared Values by way of wider communication and information sharing, through direct support to Member States, by ensuring the strengthening of institutions and by way of putting in place measures to ensure that success is monitored and that there is ongoing review of progress in the implementation of adopted Shared Values instruments. 9. We urge all African peoples and stakeholders to take ownership of adopted Shared Values, through amongst others, providing resources and promoting these as a basis for enhancing African unity and integration. 10. We further call upon the RECs to work closely with the AUC and other AU organs and institutions in harmonising their instruments and further urge them to promote the Shared Values especially in the areas of democracy, governance and popular participation. 11. We commend the work of the AUC on strengthening the African Governance Architecture and affirm the importance of establishing an African Governance Platform as a basis for facilitating harmonisation of instruments and coordination of initiatives in governance and democracy. 12. We note with appreciation the support provided by our bilateral and multilateral partners and call on them to continue working closely with us in the popularization and domestication of Shared Values and request the AU Commission to report on the implementation of this Declaration.