FORMER Chief Secretary Ombeni Sefue has been appointed to join the Panel of Eminent Persons of the African Union’s African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) following his nomination by the government.
According to information confirmed yesterday by the executive secretary of the APRM Tanzania secretariat, Rehema Twalib, Ambassador Sefue and other new panelists were endorsed during the forum of AU heads of state and government held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Saturday.
Sefue served as Chief Secretary under ex-president Jakaya Kikwete and continued in the same position after current president John Magufuli’s 2015 general election victory. Magufuli then replaced him with John Kijazi after four months, with a statement from State House saying he would be assigned other duties.
The APRM is directed and managed by a panel of between five and seven ‘eminent persons’ whose main criteria is “Africans who have distinguished themselves in careers that are relevant to the work of APRM”.
Before being picked as CS by Kikwete, Sefue served as Tanzania’s permanent representative to the UN.
Other APRM panelists joining Sefue in his new job include Prof Ibrahim Agboola Gambari (Nigeria), Amb Mona Omar Attia (Egypt), Fatma Zohra Karadia (Algeria), Bishop Don Dinis Salomão Sengulane (Mozambique), and Prof Augustin Loada (Burkina Faso).
APRM is a specialised agency of the AU, initiated in 2002 and established in 2003 in the framework of the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).
It is a tool for sharing experiences, reinforcing best practices, identifying deficiencies, and assessing capacity-building needs to foster policies, standards and practices that lead to political stability, high economic growth, and sustainable development and accelerated sub-regional and continental economic integration.
Member countries use the APRM to self–monitor all aspects of their governance and socio-economic development. AU stakeholders participate in the self-assessment of all branches of government – executive, legislative and judicial – as well as the private sector, civil society and the media.
The APRM review process gives member states “a space for national dialogue on governance and socio-economic indicators and an opportunity to build consensus on the way forward.”
The Panel of Eminent Persons is a crucial oversight organ in this framework, with a high-level mandate to ensure APRM’s credibility and performance with a view to ensuring the independence, professionalism and credibility of the review process.
Tanzania joined the APRM in July 2004 and the National Assembly ratified the memorandum of understanding on February 1, 2005.
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