MEDIA MONITORS (MM) The mission of Media Monitors is to ensure citizens access quality information through media monitoring, research and knowledge management in a sustainable manner. The organisation conducts media monitoring and analyses trends in the Zimbabwean media. RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY UNIT RAU’s mission is to conduct and share research on human rights and governance issues, particularly those pertaining to women, children and state institutions, that is used to achieve legal and policy changes to promote a democratic Zimbabwean culture. Ÿ Main Highlights Ÿ Produced 21 reports, 32 blogs, 11 opinion pieces, and 3 policy briefs. Ÿ Was closely involved with the campaign on proportional representation of women and the continuing campaign to end child marriage. Ÿ Actively involved in the National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG). Ÿ RAU maintained its role as a political commentator, producing a political economy analysis in August, and in collaboration with SAPES Trust, provided running overviews of the coup in November 2017. Main Highlights Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe rebranded to Media Monitors. Ÿ Launched an online digital library titled Newseum which provides access to historical media in Zimbabwe. Ÿ Increased the availability of evidence-based data on the media that has been used to strengthen media capacity building and advocacy. Ÿ Produced several reports on media performance including a groundbreaking baseline on how women in leadership are represented and a report on how the media reported the military intervention (Operation Restore Legacy), among other reports. Ÿ STUDENTS SOLIDARITY TRUST SST’s mission is to be the centre of solidarity excellence for tertiary s t u d e n t s i n Z i m b a b w e t h ro u g h providing demand driven solidarity to the students movement. SST also undertakes research and policy analysis on students issues and advocates for national policy reforms. NON - VIOLENT ACTION AND STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE NOVASC provides technical and practical support for developing skills for negotiation, mediation and nonviolent action. It carries this through training activities and intervention/ accompaniment in specific situations. Its vision of social change is of a process led by organisations representing people who are marginalised, poor, excluded, mistreated and the alienated. Its work is to strengthen such organisations and to input into their strategising the specific skills its espouses. TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL ZIMBABWE (TI-Z) TI-Z’s mission is to be a knowledge driven and evidence based anticorruption organisation that practices a n d p r o m o t e s t r a n s p a r e n c y, accountability and integrity in all sectors to achieve good governance. 31 ZIMBABWE HUMAN RIGHTS NGO FORUM ANNUAL REPORT 2017