Projects that we have done in the past to advance social accountability in Zambia.
Ask ATI Initiative
The Initiative was implemented under the USAID Open Spaces Zambia Project, funded by USAID and implemented by Internews in partnership with FHI 360. It sought to highlight the need for the Access to Information Law to enhance transparency and accountability in the management of public resources, utilizing the CDF as an entry point.
Rural Voice Ask Project
The overall objective of this project was to contribute to the achievement of an intensive, informed, and systematic demand for citizen involvement in the management of Constituency Development Funds for an improved supply of accountability and public services.
The Ask Project
The project seeks to strengthen the capacity of CSOs’/CBOs to implement effective rights-based advocacy for public resource accountability in Zambia.
Ask Elections Project
This project focused on capacitating citizens to see themselves as rights-holders and the vote as mandating duty-bearers to govern the country in the best interests of voters.
Public and Social Accountability (Amplification) Project
SpeakUp Girls Project
The SpeakUp Girls Project aimed at training 40 girls between the ages of 15 and 30 in two pilot regions (Choma and the Copperbelt province (Ndola and Kitwe)) in Zambia as citizen journalists.
Youth Movement Against Corruption
The project sought to address the problem of Zambian citizens, as a collective, not understanding citizenship as conferring on them the right to demand governance and public resource accountability.
Ask Health Project
This Project was aimed at using contained geo-political areas to achieve an intensive, informed and systematic demand for public resource accountability by CSO/CBOs and the public resulting in improved supply of accountability and improved public services.
Speakup Zambia
The project trained young people with no journalistic background and equips them with basic reporting skills and an appreciation of the Zambian public resource landscape so that they can report on issues affecting their communities.
Ask Project
Ask Youth
A project that trained young people with no journalistic background and equips them with basic reporting skills and an appreciation of the Zambian public resource landscape so that they can report on issues affecting their communities.
Women and Social Accountability
The goal of the project was to empower the women of Munali Constituency in Lusaka Zambia to understand and implement the power their numbers give them to influence…
Public advocacy on Zambia’s debt crisis
The objective of the project is to generate debate among Zambian youth across the country as a catalyst for engaging the broader population and demonstrate the increasing public demand for accountability from the government about Zambia’s debt crisis.
Ask Media Project – Newsroom Training
Ask Media Project’ is a partnership initiative between ACA and the U.S Embassy designed to enhance the investigative journalism capacity of the media.
Ask Online Project
The project seeks to respond to citizens especially Youths who do not understand citizenship as a right through parody news, animations, poetry and innovative public service information packs to implement a public resource management awareness campaign.