Part III: Project Achievements, Results 3.0 Provision of Legal Aid The Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) project has a focus to improve utilisation of comprehensive quality services for protection, care and support for GBV survivors in accordance with the National Gender-Based Violence Strategy. The three organisations identified gaps and challenges, including poor service delivery, coverage, and human capacity competencies which had continued to undermine comprehensive access to justice and support for GBV survivors. To address these challenges, the project has been working on mitigating the effects of gender-based violence on adolescent girls and young women by scaling up provision of comprehensive survivor sensitive legal services in the three districts. Strategies included legal awareness campaigns to enhance legal aid, capacity building of CFPs and realigning them with existing government structures, strengthening of support groups targeting GBV survivors, documentation, strengthened responses at community level, gender-sensitive legal information centres and decentralized access to legal services through the provision of legal aid mobile clinics to complement government’s Legal Aid Directorate. Legal aid services have been provided at district courts, in areas where the courts sit as circuit courts and in the communities through the mobile clinic and CFPs approaches. As a result of the project interventions, there has been a remarkable change in community awareness regarding legal issues. A cumulative total of 4,067 clients were assisted with legal services in different GBV cases, surpassing a planned project figure of 1,440 women and children.3 The partners used dialogues and empowerment sessions that resulted in cases requiring legal aid being referred to by respective people, such as traditional leaders. The partners’ legal aid activities gave advice to clients, drafting court papers, empowering clients in maintenance and domestic violence cases, court monitoring as well as representation. Legal aid clinics and help desks reached 3, 519 community members (1,050 women, 140 men, 981 girls and 674 boys). The following is a sample feature story focusing on one of the CFPs’ work on legal aid in Bindura: 3 UN Women Partners’ Consolidated Monitoring Report, October 2014-March 2016.