Government and civil society in South Africa are expecting to come to an agreement within two weeks on a plan of action to complete the country's African Peer Review Mechanism process. The new timetable comes after the governing council which oversees the process failed to meet last week's deadline. Civil society and government attributed the failure to the sheer scale of the task. Civil society has been pushing government on such issues as electoral reform, to improve services and to fight poverty. The programme of action will be presented to an African Union (AU) team expected to visit SA in July. It will form part of an AU report and be presented to heads of state at a special forum to consider the peer review reports.