From September 29 to October 3, Stephanie Booker of Natural Justice hosted 5 days of legal and negotiation training in
Manicaland, Zimbabwe, with Chiadzwa Community Development Trust and members of
communities from Mutare and Arda Transau. The meeting was supported by Ford
Foundation Southern Africa and the Heinrich Boll Foundation.
Supported by the legal expertise of the
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association, participants were led in two-day training, discussions and
information sharing on relevant laws and policies in Zimbabwe with respect to
the environment and human rights and regional and international law.
From 1 - 3 October, Zimbabwean organisation
Centre for Conflict Management and Transformation led an interactive training
with participants on inter-community conflict and general principles of
engaging with external actors. The sessions gave insight on engaging an issue
from different perspectives.
The training session complemented the
existing community protocol processes being engaged in the community at
present. In addition, a small number of participants from mining impacted
communities across Zimbabwe took the opportunity to join the much-sought after
training, to learn from about relevant laws and policies and to share
experiences with community members across Zimbabwe.
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