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Introduction The Alliance for Community Action (ACA) was set up in 2013 and works towards the articulated vision of “a Zambia in which all her citizens enjoy the full and equitable benefit of all her resources”. The Alliance for Community Action (ACA) works to grow the routine and systematic demand for public resource accountability in…

Continue Reading Call for Applications – Professional Consultant for Translation of 20 Social Accountability Productions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday 28th September 2023 The ACA and 2,734 Citizens Petition the National Assembly for The Enactment of The Access to Information (ATI) Bill into an Act of Parliament. On September 27th, 2023, the Alliance for Community Action (ACA), with support from Panos Institute Southern Africa, Common Cause Zambia and the ATI Coalition, presented…

Continue Reading The ACA and 2,734 Citizens Petition the National Assembly for The Enactment of The Access to Information (ATI) Bill into an Act of Parliament.

Last Friday 8th of September the Alliance for Community Action (ACA) hosted the graduation of 32 citizen journalists under the Speak Up Youth project. The ceremony took place Lusaka, Zambia. The ceremony attended by partners from the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) and the German embassy in Zambia, Byta FM, Sun FM, Breeze FM and Voice…

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Last Friday 25th of August 2023, the Alliance for Community Action (ACA) hosted the launch of its 2022 – 2026 Strategic Development Plan at our offices in PHI. Speaking to government officials, CSOs, donors, media and members of the public the ACA reaffirmed its mission of “strengthening the demand and supply for public resource accountability…

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Press Statement For Immediate ReleaseWednesday, 16 August 2023 The Alliance for Community Action wishes to emphasize the urgency of addressing the ongoing ‘Gold-Not Gold’ case that has gripped our nation. In the face of this evolving situation, it is imperative, that the authorities keep the public informed, to the full extent possible, on the progress…

Continue Reading ACA Calls for Thorough Investigation and Government Action into ‘Gold-Not Gold’ Case

Choma Citizen Journalists and local duty bearers during the screening at Byta FM Duty bearers play an important role in the production of community-based news stories by citizen journalists as they are the right people to answer questions and concerns raised by citizens. Councilors of Simacheche and Mubula wards were in attendance during the Speak…

Continue Reading ACA Holds Community Screening in Choma

The Alliance for Community Action and Transparency International Zambia have today 4th May 2023, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly offer support to victims of corruption in corruption-related case uptake through the TI-Z Advocacy and Legal Advice for Citizens – ALAC as well as undertaking joint social media advocacy on whistleblowing and whistleblower protection.…

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On the evening of 21st January 2023, human rights lawyer and pro-democracy activist, Thulani Maseko, was assassinated at his home in Eswatini. The undersigned organisations would like, first of all, to offer our deepest condolences to Thulani’s wife, Tanele, his two children, his wider family, and the human rights community of Eswatini. Final Thulani Maseko…

Continue Reading JOINT PRESS STATEMENT ON THE MURDER OF ESWATINI HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER THULANI MASEKO

JOINT PRESS STATEMENT ON THE ZLDC SUBMISSION OF THE PUBLIC GATHERING BILL TO MOHA Lusaka, 20th January 2023 Members of the Press, Ladies and Gentlemen, Greetings to you all As you may be aware, on Monday 16th January 2023, the Zambia Law Development Commission concluded its work on the review of the Public Order Act…

Continue Reading JOINT PRESS STATEMENT ON THE ZLDC SUBMISSION OF THE PUBLIC GATHERING BILL

The Zambia Law Development Commission (ZLDC) recently released its Public Order Act Report, in it proposing some very progressive changes to the way citizen will enjoy their right to expression, association and assembly. Below is the summarised proposed draft bill that ZLDC released and the recommendations that were in their report. The released reports are…

Continue Reading Proposed changes to the Public Order Act

The Zambia Law Development Commission (ZLDC) has handed over a project report and a draft bill on the review of the Public Order Act Chapter 113 of the Laws of Zambia to the Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Hon. Jack Mwiimbu. Review Report (Full and Summarised) REPORT-ON-THE-REVIEW-OF-THE-PUBLIC-ORDER-ACT-2023_compressedDownload SUMMARY-REPORT-ON-THE-REVIEW-OF-THE-PUBLIC-ORDER-ACT-2023_compressedDownload PRESENTATION ON THE REVIEW OF…

Continue Reading Zambia Law Development Commission hands over Public Order Act Review Report and draft Bill

Introduction The ACA was set up in 2013 and works towards the articulated vision of “a Zambia in which all her citizens enjoy the full and equitable benefit of all her resources”. The Alliance for Community Action (ACA) works to grow the routine and systematic demand for public resource accountability in Zambia, with the specific…

Continue Reading Call for Applications – Consultant for Production of Video Documentary

By Andrew Banda, Lusaka Zambia As Zambia joins the rest of the world in celebrating the International Day of Democracy it is imperative that we talk about legislation that strengthens democracy and provides a framework for sustainable development which civil society organizations including the ACA have been advocating for. These are The Public Order ActCyber…

Continue Reading DEMOCRACY THRIVES ON GOOD LEGISLATIVE REFORM

Published: 08 September 2022 WRITTEN BY JOSEF SKRDLIK The audit of government payroll by Zambia’s Office of the Auditor General published this week reveals a series of grave misuse of public money including that in 2017-2021, ministries paid more than US$45 million in regular salaries to 9,800 apparently non-existent individuals. “As of July 31, the…

Continue Reading Zambia: Auditors Expose 9,800 Ghost Workers in Government Ministries

PRESS HIGHLIGHTSSTATEHOUSE, FRIDAY, 19TH AUGUST, 2022 On family, business, and public office We remain an ordinary family. Despite the fact that we work here at this state house, the people’s state house, and serve the people of Zambia, we still remain an ordinary family and Mutinta still prepares meals for us.When we were in the…

Continue Reading President Hakainde Hichilema Interview with Hot FM Zambia

Introduction The Alliance for Community Action is seeking the services of a consultant to carry out an evaluation of the Ask Project an initiative implemented by the ACA and Caritas Zambia from 2019 – 2022. Background The Alliance for Community Action is a Zambian non-governmental organization founded in 2013.  The ACA’s core purpose is to…

Continue Reading TERMS OF REFERENCE (TORs) FOR EVALUATION OF THE ASK PROJECT

Tuesday 3rd April 2022 ACA joins the rest of the world and all media practitioners and media consumers in the commemoration of the 2022 world press Freedom Day whose theme is “Journalism Under Digital Siege”. The onset of the COVID19 pandemic has brought to light the critical role that the media plays in information collection,…

Continue Reading ACA STATEMENT ON WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY

Alliance for Community Action, Chapter One Foundation, and Transparency International Zambia have a mandate that includes the pursuit of transparency and accountability in public resource management, to stem corruption, and to uphold and protect the rule of law, constitutionalism, and good governance. Pursuant to those objectives, we are concerned that most of the public officials…

Continue Reading JOINT CSO STATEMENT ON ENGAGING GOVERNMENT TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH THE PARLIAMENTARY AND MINISTERIAL CODE OF CONDUCT

28th February 2022 The Public Accounts Committee wanted to know why DMMU sent invitations to various suppliers to submit quotations for the supply of 4 million 2 hundred thousand face masks without advertising the tender and why there was no evidence that the suppliers had dealt with the UNIT on similar supplies. Thus, the procurement…

Continue Reading This Week in Parliament 28th February to 4th March 2022

22 February 2022 The day’s business in the House began with a Ministerial Statement from the Minister of Health, Hon. Sylvia Masebo, MP.The issue was rising from the urgent matter of importance concerning the dispatching of expired medicine in Kabwe by ZAMMSA. The Minister’s response was as follows:a) The matter in which Honeybee supplied expired…

Continue Reading This Week in Parliament 21 – 25 Feb 2022

15th February 2022 Order Paper 74, Chasefu MP asked Minister of Agriculture question 116 which was (a) whether the community Agriculture Committees are effective in identifying beneficiaries of the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) and (b) when the farmers who have been on FISP since 2017 in Chasefu District will be removed to pave way…

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday 2nd March 2022 Contact:Andrew Banda, Information and Advocacy OfficerAlliance for Community Actionandrew.banda@acazambia.org, 0978954948 The Alliance for Community Action (ACA) has studied the CDF Guidelines released by the Minister of Local Government and we wish to share our immediate observations. The ACA welcomes the release of the 2022 Constituency Development Fund (CDF)…

Continue Reading The ACA’s position on the 2022 CDF Guidelines

The Alliance for Community Action (ACA) is an NGO whose core business is public finance monitoring. We looking for a Head of Finance who will join a small, vibrant team. Our preferred candidate should have proven experience in finance departments of civil society organizations, with 5 years in a leadership role. They should also have…

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PRESS STATEMENT For Immediate Release 26th January 2022 JOINT CSO STATEMENT ON RECENT BREACHES OF THE RULE OF LAW IN THE NEW DAWN ADMINISTRATION We the undersigned Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have noted with great concern the recent governance breaches by some key figures in the new UPND Administration that have the potential to undermine the…

Continue Reading JOINT CSO STATEMENT ON RECENT BREACHES OF THE RULE OF LAW IN THE NEW DAWN ADMINISTRATION

The Alliance for Community Action (ACA) is a non-governmental organisation whose main objective is to grow the routine and systematic demand for public resource accountability in Zambia, with the specific objective of instituting that demand in the public. In line with the provisions of the ACA financial and procurement policies, the ACA hereby invites applications from organisations and individuals to register…

Continue Reading Registration of Suppliers of Goods and Services for 2022

Job Title: Coordination Assistant Start date: As soon as possible Contract Type: Full-time short term contract Salary: A competitive salary will be offered commensurate with skills and experience Location: The place of work in Lusaka, Zambia with travel to other parts of the country whenever necessary. The post holder will work from home and from…

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Start Date: As soon as possible Who is Fight Inequality Alliance Zambia? The Fight Inequality Alliance Zambia (FIA Zambia) is a coalition of organizations – among them rural, youth, labour, climate justice, women’s rights, urban, artists, land rights and social justice movements fighting inequality in Zambia. FIA Zambia works on the premise that the gap…

Continue Reading Call for Applications – Policy Consultant

Job Title: Digital Engagement OfficerStart date: As soon as possibleContract Type: Part-time (2.5 days per week), fixed-term contract through ACA (our fiscal host organisation), extendable by mutual agreement and subject to available funds.Salary: A competitive salary will be offered commensurate with skills and experience The Fight Inequality Alliance Zambia is seeking a strong and dynamic…

Continue Reading Job Vacancy – Digital Engagement Officer

BACKGROUNDElections in Zambia take place within the framework of a multi-party democracy with elections held every five years. Electoral manifestos play a crucial role in the electoral process as they illustrate a party’s vision for the country if elected to office. An election manifesto is essentially a list of plans and policies that a political…

Continue Reading Promise Being Checked: Construct and establish universities in each province

BACKGROUNDOn 26th September 2020, Finance Minister Bwalya Ngandu disclosed, as he unveiled the proposed 2021 national budget in Lusaka, that the government of Zambia will increase the monthly allowances for Social Cash Transfer (SCT) beneficiaries from the current K90 to K110.In line with the above statements, the ACA conducted a fact-checking exercise around the use…

Continue Reading Did Government really increase the monthly allowances for Social Cash Transfer (SCT)?

14/04/21 We, Civil Society Organisations are of the view that Public Procurement is an important tool for achieving socio-economic development in Zambia. It is one of the most important components of expenditure by the Government of Zambia as it accounts for an estimated 10 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and should therefore be…

Continue Reading CSO STATEMENT ON PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

BackgroundIn 2020, the Auditor General’s Office carried out a review of records relating to the fight against COVID-19 at the Ministry of Finance (MoF), Ministry of Health (MoH), Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) and selected districts.The Report of the Auditor-General reviewed that as of 31st July 2020, Zambia had received pledges and commitments from…

Continue Reading Is the lack of information on COVID19 Donations in the Auditor Generals Report an indication that the Government of Zambia misapplied COVID-19 resources?

We, the undersigned civil society organisations, note the proposed changes to the law regulating the cyber space in form of the Cyber Security and Cyber Crimes Bill of 2021. While it is imperative to ensure the safety of the public at large against cyber security threats, this must invariably be balanced with the right to…

Continue Reading JOINT CSO PRESS STATEMENT DATED 18TH FEBRUARY 2021 ON THE PROPOSED CYBER SECURITY AND CYBER CRIMES BILL

CLAIM CHECKED:It is against good governance, public interest and best practice to appoint former Minister of Health and Mansa Central MP, Dr. Chitalu Chilufya, to a parliamentary committee. He has been appointed to another job after being recently fired. BACKGROUNDOn the 26th of January 2021, various media outlets reported that former Minister of Health and,…

Continue Reading Should the National Assembly have Appointed former Minister of Health Dr Chitalu Chilufya to the Parliamentary Budget Committee?

LUSAKA, Monday 18 January 2021 The Alliance for Community Action is deeply concerned with the non-disclosure of the purported well-wishers who settled legal debts owed to the treasury by former ministers who illegally stayed in office after the dissolution of parliament in 2016 as ordered by the Constitutional Court. According to media reports quoting the…

Continue Reading PRESS STATEMENT ON THE SETTLEMENT OF ILLEGALLY EARNED EMOLUMENTS BY MINISTERS

The Alliance for Community Action (ACA) is a non-governmental organisation whose main objective is to grow the routine and systematic demand for public resource accountability in Zambia, with the specific objective of instituting that demand in the public.In line with the provisions of the ACA financial and procurement policies, the ACA hereby invites applications from…

Continue Reading Registration of Suppliers of Goods and Services for 2021

Introduction The Alliance for Community Action is seeking the services of a Consultant to carry out an evaluation of the implementation of its Strategic Plan 2017-2021 Background The Alliance for Community Action is a Zambian non-governmental organization founded in 2013. The ACA’s core purpose is to grow the demand and supply of public resource accountability,…

Continue Reading TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR EVALUATION OF THE ACA STRATEGIC PLAN

Introduction On Saturday 10th October 2020, President Edgar Lungu posted the following statement on his official Facebook page:”Social cash transfer, food security packs, emergency cash transfer scheme, and supporting women livelihood programmes are some of the avenues in which government is able to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable people in society with…

Continue Reading Social Cash Transfer – The Situation on the Ground Introduction

Zambia’s debt has been increasing quarter after quarter, to levels where most experts now say we are likely to default on our loans. Below is a simple infographic that breaks down how Zambia’s debts affect you without getting too techie. You can also download the Ministry of Finance’s debt presentation to creditors here.

Continue Reading How Zambia’s Debt Affect You | Updated Infographic

The Alliance for Community Action (ACA) and Orodata Science (ODS) are happy to announce a collaboration project “Tipende – a data-driven social accountability project”.The project will include capacity development on data reporting technologies towards evidence-based social accountability and advocacy. It will equip citizens and civil society organizations (CSOs) with skills and knowledge to leverage rights-based…

Continue Reading ACA and Orodata embark on a collaboration Project

The Alliance for Community Action with support from the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and Takwimu has broken down COVID-19 donations received by Government between the 1st March and 30th April 2020. Below are excerpts of the data, download the detailed data-set below after the excerpts. BREAKDOWN OF ZAMBIA COVID-19 DONATIONS TO APRIL…

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We got on the train to find out to what extent the stated reason for investing 120 million U.S Dollars of Euro-bond money had been achieved.The money was meant to be invested in rolling stock (trains – locomotives, coaches, etc) thereby improving services and most importantly the speed at which the trains moved.Was this achieved?…

Continue Reading Is the Zambia Railways train moving at a higher speed since $120 Million U.S Dollars was invested in the company?

The arrest of Chama Fumba popularly known as “Pilato” in Livingstone at a Roman Catholic Church premise is unwarranted, illegal and an assault not only to the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental freedoms and liberties enshrined in the Bill of Rights of the Zambia Constitution but also to the survival of democracy. The constitution amendment act number…

Continue Reading THE ARREST OF PILATO-FUMBA CHAMA ILLEGAL: LAURA MITI AND HER DEPUTY BORNWELL MWEWA DETAINED ALSO IN LIVINGSTONE

Top 10 Money Wasters We have ranked the top 10 councils that wasted public money according to the Auditor-General’s report on accounts for local authorities in the country. Click here to join the conversation on twitter You can also follow the conversation on our Facebook page by clicking here. How much did you lose? Here…

Continue Reading Our Week Oct 28 – Nov 1 2019

We have compiled an infographic for you, to show you, who is for and against Zambia’s proposed Constitutional amendment aka Bill 10.

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Thank you for an amazing year! We wouldn’t have been able to do it without your support, your every share, your every like and more increased the demand for accountability. To a more successful 2019! Here is a summary of what our year has been like. #42for42 #MedsTheftZambia #fic #Zambia #DebtConcernsMe #SpeakUpZambia  

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SUPPORT THE CHOLERA RESPONSE The Alliance for Community Action approached the Ministry of Health to ask how we could support the ongoing cholera response. The Lusaka Sub district one (1) – (Chelstone and surrounding areas), where our office is situated requested as to support their call for contributions from the public of any readily available…

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