For more than a decade, the African Procurement Law Unit (APLU) has worked to promote:
research on public procurement regulation on the African continent;
training in public procurement regulation;
discussion of public procurement issues within the African context;
building of networks in Africa and with similar units elsewhere.
The unit provides a permanent platform for in-depth research in an area of law that is critical to development in Africa, but currently largely neglected. APLU maintains a continental footprint by means of associated researchers based in a number of African countries and beyond.