36 o Strategic meeting with experts on development of guidelines on enforced disappearance ZLHR Annual Report 2016 On 22 October 2016, ZLHR held a strategic meeting with technical partners from CSOs on the side-lines of the 59th session of the ACHPR. The Commissioner who is a member of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Africa (CPTA) was also invited to the meeting. Through this meeting, ZLHR sought to concretise the process of adoption of the draft guidelines developed on enforced disappearances and have these incorporated into the ACHPR framework. It was a follow up to the initial strategic experts meeting on development of guidelines on enforced disappearances held in December 2015. ZLHR and other CSOs aim to develop a regional instrument or framework that will deal with enforced disappearances, which does not exist at the moment. The core technical committee comprised of the commissioner, a representative from the CPTA, representatives from REDRESS, Amnesty International, Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, the Kenya Human Rights Commission and ZLHR. 8QLWHG1DWLRQV o Human Rights Council, Universal Periodic Review of Zimbabwe Pre-session On 2 October 2016, ZLHR attended the pre-session to Zimbabwe’s Universal Periodic Review mechanism that was organised by UPR Info, a Geneva-based organisation that capacitates CSOs and other stakeholders with strategies to conduct effective advocacy and awareness raising about the Universal Periodic Review processes. ZLHR attended with other representatives of Zimbabwe CSOs from the NGO Forum and Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions. This session presented an opportunity for the organisation to share proposed recommendations that could be shared by UN member states with the Government of Zimbabwe for it to improve its human rights record. o Interactive Dialogue, Second Cycle Universal Periodic Review of Zimbabwe ZLHR participated as an observer during the UPR of Zimbabwe held on 2 November 2016. During the interactive dialogue session, Zimbabwe received a total of 260 recommendations from 86 representatives of UN member states. On 4 November 2016, the Troika (comprising of Kenya, Macedonia and The United Arab Emirates) presented a draft report for adoption. The report captured all the recommendations made to Zimbabwe by member states during the interactive session of the Second Cycle UPR process. Of these recommendations, the Government accepted 142, noted 18 recommendations that it did not accept and deferred 100 for further scrutiny and consideration. Participation at the Second Cycle review presented a learning opportunity for ZLHR and the NGO Forum on more effective strategies to conduct advocacy for future processes, particularly how to share information, who to target, timing and packaging. &62UHSUHVHQWDWLYHVGXULQJDSDQHOGLVFXVVLRQKHOGWKHGD\EHIRUH =LPEDEZH·V835VHVVLRQ