Funding Lawyers’ Workshop International Funding The annual lawyers’ workshop, in October 2014, was attended by 14 lawyers (3 male, 11 female), the Legal Programmes Director, the Advocacy Officer, the Education and Training Manager and the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer. The workshop aimed to equip the lawyers with legal drafting and courtroom advocacy skills. Advocate Magwaliba facilitated and guided the lawyers in how to structure heads of arguments; how to conduct case analysis; the types of questions to ask their witnesses during cross examination, and appellant advocacy. The lawyers were very appreciative of the skills development and the moot court sessions where they had to argue their case before a ‘judge’. Despite appearing before the courts for years, there were things that they had not been doing correctly. The LRF is grateful to each and every funding partner who assisted the organisation in fulfilling its work during the year. These partners enabled us to continue our good work and to plan for the future. This year was the second year of the Sida and Danida sponsored threeyear agreement and we appreciate the assistance given towards our core promotion of access to justice work. The efforts of these donors were also complemented by additional institutional support from the European Delegation in Zimbabwe, the Royal Norwegian Embassy and the German Development Fund. Special gratitude is also due to donors who provided project specific support. These were the British Embassy (empowering communities to assert their rights); the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (institutional development); UNDP (strengthening the role of CSOs in human rights reporting, monitoring and advocacy) and Plan International (enhancing child participation in access to justice). The LRF has continued to benefit through the deployment of a Development Expert in Knowledge Management and Communication, supported by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenabeit (GIZ). Local Funding We are grateful to the President’s Fund for financial support rendered during the year under review. The Catholic and UCCSA churches continued to support the LRF through subsidised rentals for some of our legal advice centres, and our special thanks go to them. Participants at the annual LRF lawyers’ workshop Administrators’ Workshop The Finance Director held the annual training workshop for Centre Administrators and Managers in November. Areas covered included the 2014 Audit Report, LRF procurement procedures, LPU stocks, the Fraud / Whistleblower Framework, general aspects of financial management and the challenges faced by the Administrators 30 Legal Resources Foundation Annual Report 2015