Figure 1.1: APRM Geographical Coverage 2 Legend Green – Reviewed countries Orange – Other participating member countries Grey – Non-participating countries 13. Accession to the Mechanism entails a country undertaking to submit to periodic peer reviews and facilitating such reviews. It also includes committing to the implementation of the National Plan of Action (NPOA) arising from the review, as well as to the operationalisation of agreed parameters for good governance across the four thematic areas. 14. Since its inception in 2003, the APRM has initiated reviews in 15 countries, as shown in Table 1.2. Reviews have been finalised for nine countries and the Country Review Reports (CRRs) have been peer-reviewed by heads of state and governments. The review process itself began in 2005, with Country Review Missions (CRMs) fielded to three countries: Ghana (April 2005), Rwanda (April 2005) and Kenya (October 2005). Ghana was the first country to be peer-reviewed in January 2006; Rwanda and Kenya followed in June of the same year. 2 APRM Secretariat, April 2008 (adapted from WorldAtlas.com) 44 A P R M COU N T RY R EV IEW R EP ORT NO. 11