15 5.1.2 Parliamentary Engagement On 24 June 2015  ZLHR held a breakfast meeting for the Thematic Committee on Human Rights and the Parliamentary Legal Committee. The purpose of the meeting was to  provide a platform for the committees to engage relevant stakeholders, including the prison service and civil society, to interrogate the realities and opportunities for improving the operations of prisons in order to strengthen the efficiency and effectiveness of the prisons service in delivering on its mandate and accounting to the public. The meeting was attended by 47 participants  (25 males and 22 females). At this meeting strategies were crafted to strengthen the oversight role of Parliament. A second breakfast meeting was held with the Defence and Home Affairs Committee and the Parliamentary Legal Committee on 17 July 2015 at the Crown Plaza Hotel. ZLHR convened the meeting with the objective of strengthening the selected committees’ oversight role on issues of statelessness and citizenship in Zimbabwe. The meeting also aimed to increase the committees’ under­standing of the United Nations Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review process and to create a platform for discussion on develop­ments that can lead to an increase in incidents of statelessness. Through this meeting MPs’ understanding of the UNHCR UPR process was enhanced and a platform was created which enabled critical discussion on issues of nationality and statelessness to take place, recommendations and strategies to improve the situation were crafted. ZLHR Annual Report 2015 ZLHR's Executive Director chats with the Speaker of Parliament