N AT I O N A L I N Q U I R Y R E P O R T ZIMBABWE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION For Human Dignity Department of the Registrar General 11 Faith Based Organisations 14 Media 18 Civil Society Organisations 37 Local Authorities 37 Traditional Leaders 45 Representatives from other Government Departments 293 Figure 3 Stakeholders who participated at Provincial validation meetings29 2.1.3 Written Witness and Stakeholder Submissions The bulk of evidence of the National Inquiry was gathered from information received from individual witnesses and stakeholders’ forms30 administered at community outreaches. Mobilisation of citizens facing access to documentation challenges in local communities was conducted by ZHRC in collaboration with Traditional Leaders, Provincial Development Coordinators (PDCs), District Development Coordinators (DDCs) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). This was done to leverage on their relationships and trust with communities, language skills and familiarity with issues at hand so as to gain maximum participation and engagement from affected communities. At these outreaches, the ZHRC raised awareness on its mandate, the National Inquiry process, and administered witness and stakeholder forms. Outreaches were conducted in all the Districts of the ten Provinces of the Country. A total of twenty thousand, five hundred and sixty-four (20,564) people attended the outreaches and were engaged in the National Inquiry process throughout the country. Out of the total number of people engaged at outreach meetings, thirteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-four (13794) were women and six thousand seven hundred and seventy were men (6770) as indicated in Figure 4 below. The majority of people engaged were women across all the Provinces, demonstrating that the documentation was a challenge affecting many women. 29 30 See Annexure 10 for number of Stakeholders per Province who participated at Provincial Validation Meetings. See sample witness and stakeholder forms annexed, which were also translated in Shona and Ndebele. 8 8