SaferAfrica whose mission is to serve the long-term security and development needs of Africa and its peoples, in accordance with the vision of African Renewal and values of Pan-Africanism, has a programme on “AU-NEPAD”. This programme is fully engaged in the on-going transformation of Africa's peace, security and governance. It provides expertise and supports the development of capacity for the African Peer Review Mechanism process and facilitates consultative meetings for the AU Commission on the policy and operationalization of new AU and NEPAD structures.

A meeting, jointly hosted and organized by the Center for Governance and Development (CGD) and the Development Policy Management Forum (DPMF) was held in Nairobi on the 4th of March 2004. The theme of the meeting was “Deepening Regional Integration For Democratization and Development Through Networking/Coalition Building in the East African Community (EAC)”. The meeting was organized under a project of the Ford Foundation's Special Initiative for Africa (SIA) that, through an earlier workshop, mandated the DPMF to develop a program for mobilizing CSOs and Research Institutions (RIs) to “promote regional cooperation for democratic governance and monitoring the African Peer Review Mechanism process”.