The African Public Service Optimum Awards (hereafter referred to simply as the APSO Awards) was introduced by the internationally acclaimed The Business Executive (TBE) Media Group with the ultimate aim of identifying and publicly recognizing exemplary performance by public servants and public institutions across Africa. Consideration for awards will therefore cover state institutions in various forms inclusive of government institutions such as the executive legislature and the judiciary as well as state owned agencies and enterprises. Awards will also be conferred on exemplary individual public servants engaged in such institutions and enterprises.

Commitment to optimal performance, effort towards fulfilling institutional mandates and actual out turns and impact of those efforts will all serve as awardee selection criteria. Award winners will be selected by a multinational Awards Selection Board, comprising 12 highly skilled and experienced experts on public sector performance across Africa. They will select the winners - using established consideration criteria – from a shortlist of nominations from the public which have been authenticated for accuracy of content and assessed with regards to meeting both the eligibility and performance criteria, both processes executed by separate independent research and analysis teams contracted by the award event organizers specifically for those purposes.

Awardees will be conferred with their awards at a five star gala awards conferment event to be hosted in Accra, Ghana in June 2024.