Bronwen Manby,

Bronwen Manby was the founding director and is now is senior programme adviser for the Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP), an initiative of the Open Society Institute network’s four African foundations. AfriMAP was established in 2004 to monitor and strengthen compliance with the new commitments to good governance undertaken by member states of the African Union, especially in the context of the AU’s African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).   AfriMAP works with the OSI Africa foundations and national civil society organisations to conduct in-depth research and qualitative reporting on government performance in relation to three themes: justice sector and the rule of law; democracy and political participation; and effective delivery of public services. AfriMAP also works to promote the participation of African citizens and organisations in the APRM and other AU processes.

Bronwen Manby was previously the deputy director of the Africa division of Human Rights Watch, where she worked for 10 years; she has also worked for human rights organizations in South Africa.  She has degrees from Oxford and Columbia Universities, and is trained as a solicitor in England and Wales.  She has written on a wide range of human rights issues in Africa, especially focusing on South Africa and Nigeria, and on continental legal developments.