The ACA offers consultancy services in our areas of strength which are backed by many years of combined experience. For each engagement, we assemble a team of experts drawing on our previous work, a pool of qualifications and experience. The consultancies we offer are:
Social Accountability Training (Public Service Accountability Monitoring – PSAM)
The ACA delivers a social accountability monitoring and advocacy course to civic actors, media practitioners, government actors and members of the public. The course aims to introduce participants to a rights-based systems approach to public resource and service delivery monitoring and to share with participants, tools to implement it. The course is based on the South African Rhodes University Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) “Fundamentals of Social Accountability Monitoring” Course as specially adapted to the Zambian context. The ACA Social Accountability Monitoring and Advocacy Course has the following specific objectives Understand Social accountability as a concept. Understand and apply the principles of a rights-based approach to social accountability monitoring Identify the legislative framework that oversees social accountability monitoring in ZambiaInterrogate strategic planning and resource allocation, expenditure management, performance management, Integrity management and the oversight function of the Zambian Public Resource Management Framework. Identify social accountability advocacy opportunities and strategies within the public resource management framework and apply basic advocacy skills. The course can be offered as a 3-day appreciation level, 5-day conceptual level or 10-day full course.
Incorporating Social Accountability (Public Service Accountability Monitoring – PSAM) in radio and television programming
The ACA has developed in-depth expertise in training media practitioners. We offer a course that aims to introduce journalists, student journalists and citizen journalists to a rights-based approach to reporting on social accountability issues with a focus on public resource management accountability as it relates to the delivery of services in communities. The course has the overall objective of strengthening media practitioners’ conceptual understanding of the public resource management as it relates to service delivery and then capacitating them to simply and package technical concepts for their audiences. How to identifying Social Accountability issues in everyday life, news and current affairs Using news content (press releases, product and service launches, project commissioning’s, news bulletins and publications, etc.) and daily occurrences to create SA reports (packages, drama and talk show topics).How to use the news content provided, identify Social Accountability issues and script a list of all possible Social Accountability System (SAS) processes prevailing in the story and can be used to create radio content. Deciding on show formats to address the SA issues identified. Generating Social Accountability questions/concerns to ask/address targeting duty bearers and non-state role players.
Project proposal writing
The success of any project depends on a good and well-articulated road map in the form of a good proposal. Well written and realistic project proposals are critical in the successful execution of projects.ACA can help your organization in the writing of detailed, cohesive and realistic project proposals. After assessing a synopsis of your proposed initiative, we are able to work with you through a step-by-step process of formulating a workable project proposal.
Project Finance Planning
In order for projects to be executed well, financial planning and management are critical. At ACA, we have a highly competent finance team that can be outsourced by other organizations to plan a detailed and workable budget and best practice in financial resources management.
Project Concept Note Writing
Conceptualizing your ideas into an executable project may be a daunting task. You may have the core idea of what you want to do and achieve but writing it down could be very difficult. At ACA, we have a dedicated and competent team that can help you to conceptualize your project idea.
Mobile Citizen Journalism training
The course is an integrated training in new media and distinctive journalism skills with Mobile media apps as tools for professional content creation. The Mobile Citizen Journalism Course aims at: Giving journalism students skills in using free, innovative mobile apps that are designed to be open sources which the can use in ways that are useful in creating content in the area of social accountability and make duty bearers account in service delivery responsibilities. Equipping students with knowledge, skills and right attitudes in citizen journalism using creative thinking and distinct production skills so as to have engaging content that enhances accountability in public service delivery systems. The Mobile Citizen Journalism Course is designed to enable the learners to Be able to effectively and efficiently use chosen Mobile Media Applications in creating content among other issues of social accountability. Be able to know how to source and edit recorded content on phone and package the story using the mobile media apps editing suites. Be able to know how to upload mobile packaged content onto social media platforms. Be able to understand creative ways of telling stories using mobile media applications. Be able to understand creative methods of formatting or packaging their stories. Be able to try other creative ways of developing unique ideas using creative thinking techniques.
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