The ACA, under the USAID Open Spaces Zambia Project, is implementing a project that seeks to connect access to information, and freedom of expression with people’s daily pressing concerns and ensure that people begin to understand that access to information is a critical prerequisite to providing the necessary oversight to public resource management.
This past weekend, the ACA was in Kabwe Central Constituency training members of the community in Nakoli township on Access to Information and how the law acts as a deterrent mechanism for the abuse of public resources as well as its importance in providing the necessary oversight to public resource management. The ACA has also conducted trainings in Matero Constituency and Chongwe.
The intended immediate impact of this project will be to raise public interest and awareness of how access to information acts as a deterrent mechanism for the abuse of public resources and the action will be a means to bringing the citizens voice on board to lobby for the enactment of the Access to Information Bill. The project implementation sites are Lusaka, Kabwe, Kafue and Chongwe districts.
The USAID Open Spaces Zambia Project is funded by USAID and implemented by Internews in partnership with FHI 360.
Be part of the campaign to see to it that the Access to Information law is enacted by signing the petition using this link. https://chng.it/4hkkmHZGJj