Governance Peace and Security

Objectives

1. Promoting a rights-based approach: The activities include: developing a common
   framework for promoting and implementing a rights based approach at the national level including inventory of best practices; strengthen oversight capacity for advocacy, implementation and monitoring; a review of laws and legislative frameworks and an inventory of different partners to assess capacity gaps.

2. Develop integrated programmes for conflict prevention, management, and post-
   conflict recovery/reconstruction with particular attention to refugees and internally displaced persons: These would include joint contingency planning and a rationalization of early warning indicators, joint assessment missions and joint planning for post conflict initiatives including resource mobilization.

3. Promoting good governance: Activities would include: support to NEPAD in the
   development of indicators for the Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) in the three areas of governance (cited above), joint capacity development to facilitate national peer review/self-assessment processes; develop a common framework for encouraging ownership of the NEPAD process at the national level; support local governance, and activities to enhance capacity of the RECs and national institutions.