Africa: 'Peer Review' and Civil Society Keep African Leaders On Their Toes

Amos Sawyer is a member of the Panel of Eminent Persons of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), established in 2003 by the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the continental development plan. Mr. Sawyer is no novice on governance issues. During the early 1980s he chaired Liberia's constitutional commission and in 1990-94 was interim president of the country, during one phase in that West African nation's long civil war. He currently chairs Liberia's Governance Commi Source