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 approaches when holding the government to account. Furthermore, it will serve as a platform for the reskilling of citizens, and strengthening of the voice of the civil society as they continue to demand for greater accountability and good governance.
Tipende is in line with other global initiatives intending to evolve or reform accountability mechanisms towards enhanced service delivery, poverty reduction, people-centric policies, empowerment of citizens and the strengthening of the democratic processes. Tipende will equip augmented reporting techniques such as data visualization, analysis and reporting to stakeholders who will use it to demand for social accountability and at the same time deliver focused services that their communities need the most.
Beneficiaries will utilize the skills learnt to produce data-centric creative outputs that can be showcased in the community and be used by the community at the end of the project.
In addition, the collaboration will share best practices and lessons between organizations to approach social accountability while impacting youth groups who are using technology to hold the government accountable.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, activities of the project will be virtual.
The Alliance for Community Action (ACA) is a non- governmental organisation which promotes community participation and accountability in development. ACA focuses on citizen based advocacy in demanding for responsible and accountable management of public resources at national and local levels.
Oradata Science (ODS) is a civic technology organization that leverages augmented reporting technologies and techniques such as Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Automation to democratize public data towards the facilitation of easy access to information for citizens and the media, and to promote accountability and transparency in government.
Andrew Banda of Alliance for Community Action (ACA) and Blaise Aboh of Orodata Science (ODS) are the team leaders for the Tipende project. This collaboration project is implemented with support from Hivos Foundation.