SOME QUESTIONS TO PONDER “Has participation affected processes?” T he NPRC Bill Public Hearings held by the Parliament of Zimbabwe from 10 March 2017 to 17 March 2017. Prior to the public hearings, NTJWG published the analysis of the NPRC Bill, and distributed 5 000 copies across the 10 provinces. Another 3 000 were distributed to 36 community based organisations who held meetings with communities analysing the Bill. NTJWG Coordinator, Dzikamai Bere published an opinion piece in the Standard of 19 March 2017. On 3 April 2017, NTJWG held a reflective meeting with three Parliamentary Committees that were driving the public hearings. The meeting reviewed the public views, analysed the Bill and came to certain agreed positions on how the Bill must look like. When Parliament resumed sitting, NTJWG prepared the draft amendments to the Bill for Parliamentarians. These were presented by selected Parliamentarians during debate. An analysis of the public views as reported by Parliament, the debates in Parliament and recorded in the Hansard, and the Bill that passed the senate reveals that NTJWG interventions affected the process in the following ways: 1 2 Views of the public during the hearings were influenced by NTJWG information material Parliamentarians had greater appreciation of transitional justice in their debates in Parliament 11 ANNUAL REPORT 2017