NEPAD/APRM/Panel3/guidelines/11-2003/Doc8 NEPAD/APRM/Panel2/country /10-2003/Doc (vii) After the completion of the Technical Assessments, the partner institutions submit a report both to the APR Secretariat and to the country under review. Under the guidance of the APR Panel, the APR Secretariat then considers the findings and recommendations, and updates if necessary, the Issues Paper (Box 5). If necessary, the country being reviewed will also update its draft Programme of Action. 22. Stage Two is the Country Review Visit. Under the leadership of the APR Panel, the Country Review Team (CRT) visits the country concerned where its priority order of business will be to carry out the widest possible range of consultations with the Government, officials, political parties, parliamentarians and representatives of civil society organisations including the media, academia, trade unions, business and professional bodies [APRM Base Document, paragraph 18].The main purpose will be to learn about the perspectives of the different stakeholders on governance in the country and to clarify the issues identified in the Issues Paper that are not taken into account in the preliminary Programme of Action of the country, and to build consensus on how these could be addressed. 23. Stage Three is the drafting of the Team’s report. The report is prepared on the basis of the Background Document and the Issues Paper prepared by the APR Secretariat, and the information provided incountry by official and unofficial sources during the wide-ranging consultations and interactions with all stakeholders. The draft report must take into account the applicable political, economic and corporate governance and socio-economic development commitments made in the preliminary Programme of Action [APRM Base Document, paragraph 19], identify any remaining weaknesses, and recommend on further actions that should be included in the final Programme of Action. The draft report will need to be clear and specific on the required actions in instances where outstanding issues are identified 24. The draft report is first discussed with the Government concerned. Those discussions will be designed to ensure the accuracy of the information and to provide the Government with an opportunity both to react to the APR Team’s findings and to put forward its own views on how the identified shortcomings may be addressed. These responses of the Government will be appended to the Team’s report. The country at this stage finalises its Programme of Action taking into account the conclusions and recommendations of the draft Report. Page 8 of 20