An ACA may be tasked with directly carrying out such assessments or providing methodological guidance and expert backstopping to other institutions. This function requires capacities to design and implement a risk assessment. Specifically:
If an ACA is mandated to coordinate and guide the implementation of risk assessments (as opposed to implementing them directly), it should have the capacity to train others as well as the organizational structures and processes in place to gather information from the agencies in which the assessments are conducted and process inputs received from various sources. Of course, it should also be able to effectively communicate with agencies.