III. STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS The update on progress is a requirement to meet the following undermentioned objectives and many more: • Ensure that countries implement the national priorities agreed by stakeholders during the review process and keep to commitments made in the APRM Programme of Action (NPoA) to take remedial steps in addressing the gaps identified in the review; • Monitor progress on achievements in the implementation of the NPoA; • Identify gaps and necessary resources - human, technical and financial - needed to achieve programmes and initiatives in the NPoA; 3.1 STANDARDS AND CODES The APRM Country Review Report observed that Sierra Leone signed a good number of intrnational standards , codes and treaties but needs to ensure domestication . There are seven conventions proposed to be ratfified by member states . Sierra Leone has ratified the following: • Amendment to the Constitutive Act of the African Union ( AU), 2003 • The AU Non-Aggression and Common Defence Pact, 2005 • The AU Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption, 2003 • UN Convention Aginst Corruption • Protocol on Rights of Women in Africa, 2003 • Protocol on the African Court of Justice, 2003 • Protocol to the OAU Convention on the prevention and Combating of Terrorism, 2004 LAND IN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY IS HELD IN COMMUNAL OWNERSHIP UNDER CUSTOMARY TENURE AND IS CONTROLLED BY TRADITIONAL RULERS WHO ADMINISTER IT ON BEHALF OF THEIR COMMUNITIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH CUSTOMARY PRINCIPLES AND USAGE. 22 APRM Sierra Leone | Annual Progress Report