meetings targeted human rights defenders, traditional and community leaders, law enforcement agents and judicial officers as well advocacy with policy makers to partner the consortium for the realisation of its objectives. A total of 49 parliamentarians were sensitised on the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Inhuman and degrading treatment; 325 traditional leaders (chiefs and headmen) were trained on human rights and their role in conflict resolution and 927 traditional leaders were trained on their role in providing access to justice to victims of OVT. There was also training in conflict prevention for 976 community members. The capacity of staff in the consortium and other CSOs in programme management was strengthened by mainstreaming women’s and LGBTI rights in their work with 46 being trained in Legal Awareness, Human Rights and Democracy; 200 Community Based Prevention Volunteers on LGBTI rights; 100 ZPS officers in human rights using the Human Rights Training Manual developed by the Consortium; Magistrates were trained on the Protocol to Multisectoral Approach for Coordinated Response to Sexual Gender Based Violence; 420 peace monitors in International Standards on Human Rights Monitoring and Documentation and 342 women in leadership and in parliament on articulating Gender Audit for use in the Constitution-making process. A number of CSOs were also trained in monitoring the utilisation and access to the Global Fund in Zimbabwe. Strategic partnerships were retained and strengthened to provide information and programmatic linkages that are essential for the monitoring of human rights violations, documentation and the provision of medical, social and legal interventions for rights violations. Litigation helped citizens know they could claim their human rights. Advocacy activities involved participation at the 52nd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights in October 2012; 23rd Session of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the ACP /EU in Budapest in May 2012; meetings with the European Parliament including the Africa Working Group in September 2012 and seminars under the banner of the Coalition for an effective African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, of which the Forum is the Southern Africa Focal Point. 5