A/HRC/8/WG.2/TF/2 page 8 development partnership within the framework of the proposed right to development criteria.1 The task force also heard a presentation by Xigen Wang, resource person, who described an ongoing research project to assess the right to development in China. II. SUMMARY OF THE PROCEEDINGS 27. The task force focused successively on each of the four partnerships reviewed in 2007, with presentations by task force members on missions undertaken and by the consultants on their studies on those partnerships, followed by discussions including observers. The three days of public deliberations concluded with a discussion on the assessments of the aforementioned partnerships, a preliminary presentation of partnerships to be reviewed in phase II of the Work Plan and a preliminary discussion of phase III of the Work Plan. The task force then met for four days in closed meetings to review and refine the criteria and to discuss and adopt its report. 28. The Chairperson-Rapporteur introduced the four partnerships to which the right to development criteria were applied: the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM); the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development-Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness in the context of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) (“Mutual Review” or MRDE); the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness; and the Cotonou Partnership Agreement between EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries (ACP) (Cotonou Agreement). A. The African Peer Review Mechanism 29. Margaret Sekaggya, task force member, presented the report of the technical mission of the task force (for task force texts, see annex III) for the follow-up assessment of APRM, which was undertaken from 12 to 16 October 2007, in Addis Ababa. The technical mission met with relevant actors and partners that facilitate, monitor and implement APRM. The mission held multiple meetings with the ECA, as well as with African Union (AU) and the APRM secretariat. Ms. Sekaggya noted the warm reception for the mission and the officials’ enthusiasm for and the commitment to the mechanism and the initial outcomes, while recognizing the challenges resulting from capacity constraints and the lengthy and cumbersome process. After elaborating on the background of APRM, she presented the concluding observations of the technical mission as well as the main follow-up actions for the task force. 30. Bronwen Manby, consultant to the task force, presented her report, which noted that APRM emerged from the NEPAD programme of the African Union as a specific tool to address governance concerns and as a voluntary South-South review. The review process could be 1 Felix Kirchmeier, Monika Lüke, and Britt Kalla, Toward the Implementation of the Right to Development. Field-testing and fine-tuning the UN Criteria on the Right to Development in the Kenyan-German Partnership, Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, 2008.