CALR

To Keep or Abolish the Death Sentence: Zimbabwe Soliciting a Position

November 14, 2022

Legal Aid Amendment Bill Principles Approved

October 21, 2022

A Law to Facilitate Access to Justice for All

September 22, 2022

Efforts to streamline the age of consent with the constitution underway

September 6, 2022

Zimbabwe Posed to have Virtual Courts

September 6, 2022

Knowing the proposed juvenile justice system

September 6, 2022

CENTRE FOR APPLIED LEGAL RESEARCH

The Centre for Applied Legal Research (CALR) is an independent research institute that empowers people, organizations and governments with sound and evidence-based legal and policy solutions and services that enhance development.

MAKING THE LAW WORK FOR DEVELOPMENT

Constitutionalism & Rule of Law

Access to Justice

Realization of Human Rights

ALL SERVICES

FLAGSHIP PROJECTS

Constitutional Legislative Alignment Initiative

A joint initiative being implemented by CALR in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice Legal and Parliamentary Affairs (MoJLPA).

Human Rights Professional Training Initiative

The programe seeks to contribute to participating institutions being better equipped to contribute to reforms and related initiatives.

Right of Access to Information Initiative

This initiative aims to build capacities among communities on the use of the right of access to information.

Legal Drafting and Capacity Building Initiative

Teaching and capacity development entails the development of individuals, groups and institutions for self-sustained legal learning.

About us

CALR offers legal expertise, resources, tools and technical support to governments, developmental partners, and civil society organizations. Its work links the law (as it is and as it ought to be) with developmental needs across the multiple sectors of a country’s economy. In this manner its inter-disciplinary work revolves around two thematic areas, namely:
(a) Law, Democracy and Governance
(b) Law, Economics and Science

The work involving law, democracy and governance seeks to promote a democratic dispensation embedded on the rule of law while the work involving law, economics and science seeks to promote socio-economic development in an environmentally sustainable manner.

Although CALR’s work has been mainly in Zimbabwe; it has gained significant experience in the southern, eastern and northern African sub-regions. Since its humble beginnings in 2010, CALR has worked with a variety of governments, developmental partners and civil society organizations in diverse sectors including: constitutionalism and rule of law; access to justice; promotion of human rights; public health; water and sanitation; agriculture; forestry; local government; electoral systems; and information and media.

Our Vision

CALR aspires to be a world-class international legal research, advisory and capacity development institution that addresses the needs of present and future generations to live a life of decency, safety, good health and freedom.

Our Mission

The Centre for Applied Legal Research’s mission is to contribute, through collaborative applied research, capacity development and advisory services, to efforts to resolve pressing national and sub-regional problems of human survival, development and welfare.

It provides legal education leadership on aspects of good governance, public health, human rights, financial regulation, environment and natural resources management etc. with a special emphasis on collaboration between Zimbabwean and non-Zimbabwean legal education institutes.

It, therefore, serves the people of Zimbabwe and the Southern Africa sub-region with state-of-the-art applied legal research and with the accumulated knowledge in these areas.

Governance

CALR is managed by a Board of Trustees and a Management Team.

The Board currently consists of 6 Trustees, who were selected on the basis of their past and continued contribution to scholarship in various legal and non-legal areas.

Specific membership is reserved for: permanent teaching staff of the Faculty of Law of recognized Universities; members of the legal fraternity, recognized for their experience and knowledge in legal practice in the private, public and/or NGO sectors; and the Executive Director of the Centre.

IN THE NEWS

To Keep or Abolish the Death Sentence: Zimbabwe Soliciting a Position

The Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs (MoJLPA) held a high-level consultative meeting on the position of the death penalty in Zimbabwe in Kadoma from the 5th to the 6th of November 2022. Present at the meeting was the Minister of Justice, Hon. Z. Ziyambi, Permanent Secretary for the Justice Ministry Ms. V. Mabiza,

November 14, 2022 Read more
Legal Aid Amendment Bill Principles Approved

Cabinet recently approved the principles for the Legal Amendment Bill, 2022. Speaking during Tuesday 19 October 2022 post-cabinet briefing, Information minister, Hon. Monica Mutsvangwa informed the nation that the cabinet has approved the principles for the Legal Aid Amendment Bill, 2022. The Bill will make state-funded legal aid more accessible to all persons who require

October 21, 2022 Read more
A Law to Facilitate Access to Justice for All

The Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs (MoJLPA) working in partnership with the Centre for Applied Legal Research (CALR) and UNICEF Zimbabwe held a two-day drafting workshop (write-shop) on the alignment of the Legal Aid Act with the Constitution. The write-shop ran from the 15th to the 16th of September 2022 and was held

September 22, 2022 Read more
Efforts to streamline the age of consent with the constitution underway

Following the judgment in the case of Kawenda v Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, and others which ordered the lawmakers to come up with a law that aligns the age of sexual consent with the Constitution of Zimbabwe, a need arose for the age of consent to be aligned with the dictates of

September 6, 2022 Read more