29 Capacity building Litigation, as a strategy to ensure greater compliance with the Constitution and exert pressure for respect for fundamental rights and freedoms, must be complemented with knowledge by relevant stakeholders of their rights, and the avenues open to them to enforce such rights. It is also important to ensure that human rights lawyers remain capacitated and aware of new developments in the field of human rights and public interest litigation, so as to strengthen the services offered by ZLHR to human rights defenders. As such, capacity building and sensitisation is a further complementary strategy utilised by ZLHR as part of its overall objectives. At the national level, ZLHR worked throughout 2014 to increase the capacity of a range of stakeholders from different sectors in under­ standing the Constitution and human rights issues in Zimbabwe, and being aware of how to use the law as an effective tool for compliance. A number of highly participatory trainings were carried out under the Protection of HRDs and the Institutional Strengthening and Accountability programmes. Participants were drawn from diverse backgrounds, but all with a common goal of contributing to fostering a culture of human rights through their varying activities and interventions. Litigating to Enforce Socio-Economic Rights In order to build on and consolidate the skills of ZLHR member lawyers, a socio-economic rights litigation training was held in Harare in November. A total of 23 lawyers (15 men and 8 women) participated in the training. ZLHR sought to audit the condition of social and economic rights in Zimbabwe since the adoption of the new Constitution in May 2013, review Training session on socio-economic rights litigation ZLHR Annual Report 2014 99 ZLHR carried out 17 trainings – including some to enhance safety and risk management for human rights defenders, others to strengthen litigation skills of human rights lawyers, and others to increase knowledge on HIV, human rights and the law 99 Participants were drawn from civil society and community-based organisations, the legal sector, and stakeholders in the HIV and public health communities 99 46% of participants were women