The peer review mechanism is the best for African countries as their backgrounds and challenges are similar, the President has said.
Uhuru also noted on Friday that Kenya has made tremendous progress in terms of good governance, economic and social development following its first review in 2006.
“As a government we have nothing to be ashamed of. We have put in our best effort,” he said at State House in Nairobi on Saturday.
The President
was presented with the road map for Kenya’s second Review by the panel of the
African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) eminent persons.
In noting Kenya's progress, Uhuru cited the promulgation of the 2010 constitution and peaceful general elections in 2013.
The President also cited the implementation of the devolved system of government and the ongoing judiciary and police reforms as some of Kenya's key milestones.
He said the reforms were
setting a conducive environment for peaceful elections come August 8, 2017.
Uhuru further pointed out that unlike before, Kenyans participate in the making of laws.
"When cabinet passes a Bill that is not the end," he said.
The President asked the team to put up proper structures for the second APRM summit to be held in Nairobi next Friday, on the side-lines of the Tokyo International Conference of Africa’s Development (TICAD).
Kenya has completed its self-assessment. The panel will undertake the actual review which will culminate in Uhuru's assessment by his peers at the
January 2017
APRM summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Areas to be covered during the review include, democratisation process, corporate governance, economic management and social development.
The panel will verify information presented by the Kenyan government in order to come up with an independent report.
Uhuru is the current chairman of the APRM forum of Heads of State and Government participating in the process.
Through his efforts the APRM secretariat based in South Africa has been stabilised and member states have started updating their contributions.
Kenya was one of the pioneers of the APRM process, having signed the Memorandum of Accession in
March 2003, during the Abuja Summit that set the mechanism in motion.
Since then, the country has gone through the various stages of the APRM process, and was reviewed by the APR Forum at its Summit in Banjul, The Gambia, in
June 2006.
The team was led to State House by the Devolution Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri and the lead APRM panellist Professor Abu Manga.