3.3 Legal Education Legal education campaigns were carried out by the trained CFPs to respond to gaps and issues regarding limited knowledge by women on strategies to ensure compliance with court orders by the respondents in maintenance and domestic violence matters. The legal education campaigns also provided a platform to share Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court ruling on child marriage with communities. There are still challenges on the ruling. For starters, “The ruling prohibits marriages of persons under the age of 18, ‘’ says JCT’s Govhati, adding, ‘’the major way forward is on alignment of the marriage laws that were challenged in the case and the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act with the Constitution. ‘’ She further indicated that even though the Domestic Violence Act defined Domestic Violence as forced marriage and child marriage, there were still challenges in enforcement. This law could also be used by traditional leaders to raise awareness on their communities on issues of child marriage and to mitigate economic abuse and emotional abuse on women and children. In all, 34 awareness campaigns held by CFPs reached a total of 14,351 community members (6, 955 women, 5,1 34 men, 1,381 girls and 877 boys). At one meeting in Bindura, the local CFP was inundated with requests for legal aid, and received 18 cases which had been referred by people who attended the meeting. To try and meet this demand, the project held legal awareness campaign in Bindura, Makoni and Beitbridge districts. In addition, the partners strengthened Anti-GBV structures at ward level and legal education campaigns by the trained CFP in the three districts, resulting in cases in need of legal aid being referred to district offices and mobile clinics at community level. 3.4 Transforming Communities Through Empowerment Circles The legal education campaigns were also instrumental in the establishment of empowerment circles in the three districts. The established empowerment circles, however, needed strengthening for them to become fully operational. The circles will ensure sustainability of the project as strategies will be identified to equip survivors to reduce the dependency syndrome in them on perpetrators of abuse and to empower them to be champions of antiGBV services in their communities.