NEPAD/APRM/Panel3/guidelines/11-2003/Doc8 NEPAD/APRM/Panel2/country /10-2003/Doc 7 (iv) (v) (vi) of the APR processes, documents and the instruments and dealing with the issues the country identifies in relation to these, such as data availability and the quality of the indicators, the nature of evidence on qualitative indicators, and the format of the self-assessment report and the Draft Programme of Action; Separate meetings with major stakeholders at their request to explain the APR processes and instruments to them and to respond to any concerns they might have; Research on the situation in the country, gathering available reports and data sets that could be of assistance to the APR Secretariat in developing the Background Paper; Final meeting with the APR Focal Point to reach agreement on the specifics of the country processes in responding to the questionnaire and to firm up the timeline for the country review. III.3 Country Reviews 21. Stage One involves the preparatory process both at the level of the APR Secretariat, and at the national level. Stage one may be summarised as follows: (i) Under the direction of the APR Panel, the APR Secretariat will send to countries to be reviewed a questionnaire on the four areas of the APRM, namely, Democracy and Political Governance, Economic Governance and Management, Corporate Governance, and Socio-Economic Development (Box 1 of the Chart); (ii) The country will develop a self-assessment on the basis of the questionnaire, and with the assistance, if necessary, of the APR Secretariat and/or relevant Partner Institutions (Box 2C1). (iii) Having completed the self-assessment, the country will formulate a preliminary Programme of Action building on existing policies, programmes and projects (Box 2C2); (iv) Both the self-assessment and the preliminary Programme of Action are submitted to the APR Secretariat (Box 2C3), which, during the same period, has developed a Background Document on the country through desk research and gathering all available current and pertinent information on the country’s situation on governance and development status in economic, political, social and corporate areas (Box 2); Page 5 of 20