The APR Forum is a Committee of Participating Heads of State and Government of the Member States of the African Union who have voluntarily chosen to accede to the APRM. This authority is the highest decision-making body in the APRM. Therefore, the APR Forum has ultimate responsibility for oversight of the APRM organization and processes, for mutual learning and capacity building, and for exercising the constructive peer dialogue and persuasion required to make the APRM effective, credible and acceptable.