The types of cases that will be monitored include unfair labour practices such as non-payment or underpayment of wages and salaries and sexual harassment cases. LRF will partner with worker’s movements and target specific cases in collaboration with associations such as Zimbabwe Banks and Allied Workers Union and the Zimbabwe Teachers Association. LRF will also monitor selected Labour Court judgments to see the extent to which they are justified and consistent with Zimbabwean law as well as international labour conventions ratified by Zimbabwe. This will in turn feed into advocacy initiatives to address identified problems, be they legislative gaps, training needs or information gaps among litigants. The monitoring will include establishing the reasons for the disposition time of the cases monitored, identifying patterns in court proceedings and observing proper process and procedure is being upheld. The LRF will make use of three main approaches to court monitoring systemic/procedural, thematic and ad hoc. Monitoring will cover the five key subject areas of the project namely. Under Objective 1, the programme seeks to build the capacity of civil society organizations to monitor user experiences as monitoring of courts and other JSIs will help gather data that will be used to advocate for an effective and efficient justice delivery system thus helping to protect the rights of litigants. The end goal is to increase the efficiency and fairness of the justice system. Under Objective 3, P4J will promote open and accessible justice by building public capacity to use transparency tools, in particular the Freedom of Information Law.P4J will also work to make public the degree to which JSIs are implementing their own expressed goals and achieving their stated benchmarks.P4J will conduct Data Transparency Assessments of targeted JSIs to review how much performance data they currently made public and recommend data dissemination enhancements. MISA will also build the capacity of journalists to cover the justice sector. ![]() The P4J team will also promote public awareness about JSIs and how citizens can engage with them through a series of innovative activities, including regionalize community rights initiatives and advocacy dialogues, creative video skits, e-bulletins, and community radio campaigns. Under Objective 2, P4J will increase citizen participation in the justice system by expanding and regionalizing existing stakeholder dialogue platforms, convening such platforms in each of the ten provinces.P4J will actively seek to promote implementation of reform initiatives emerging from the above platforms, and will award Justice for All (J4A) grants (including in-kind awards) for this purpose. ![]() To promote accountability in the judiciary P4J will develop qualitative performance measurements for judges and seek to highlight the performance of exceptional judges through a series of annual awards. The monitoring data and court user survey data will inform the project’s evidence-based advocacy initiatives, which will also be supported by Justice Advocacy Grants. The project will also carry out user surveys at selected courts, to generate data about the quality of experiences of justice seekers. Under Objective 1, P4J will monitor targeted JSIs relevant to the five thematic areas of the project: anti-corruption, commercial law, labour law, family law and human rights (including election law disputes). Objective 3: Enhance open and accessible justice.Objective 2: Increase citizen participation in the justice system.Objective 1: Promote systematic and sustained monitoring of targeted justice sector institutions. ![]() The programme is being implemented under three objectives as follows This programme is aimed at improving delivery of Justice to the public through increasing the transparency, accountability and efficiency of Justice Sector Institutions (JSIs). The organisation is currently represented in 5 provincial centres and 15 legal advice centres spread across the country.ĮWMI in partnership with the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) Legal Resources Foundation (LRF) and MISA are implementing the Partnerships for Justice (P4J) Programme in Zimbabwe. Its focus is on legal education, legal services, capacity building of justice sector institutions, publications and research and advocacy. The (LRF) began its operations in 1984 and has expanded its programmes and reach over the past 38 years. ![]() The LRF’s mission is to promote access to justice and human rights in Zimbabwe through legal assistance, legal education and advocacy and strengthening the justice delivery system. The contracting organisation is the Legal Resources Foundation (LRF).
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