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60Annex 3:Zambia Field WorkOne <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> members <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> evaluation team, Hellevik, undertook <strong>the</strong> case study inZambia. Zambia has 25 graduates from <strong>the</strong> SEARCWL. There are more non-lawyersthan lawyers coming from Zambia, with 7 lawyers <strong>and</strong> 16 non-lawyers. In addition,<strong>the</strong>re are two upgraders where no status has been able to retrieve. 9 <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> graduateswere police <strong>of</strong>ficers when <strong>the</strong>y undertook <strong>the</strong> masters. Except <strong>for</strong> two <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rgraduates who worked in <strong>the</strong> NGO <strong>and</strong> INGO sector, <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r graduates worked invarious positions within <strong>the</strong> government, some on legal work, such as one being alegal practitioner, ano<strong>the</strong>r working as a legal <strong>of</strong>ficer <strong>and</strong> a third being a divisionalprosecutions <strong>of</strong>ficer. However, compared to Zimbabwe, it is striking that <strong>the</strong>re havebeen no graduates from Zambia coming from <strong>the</strong> magistrates’ court or from <strong>the</strong>Ministry <strong>of</strong> Justice directly (but from underlying organisations, such as from <strong>the</strong>Zambia Law Development Commission <strong>and</strong> from <strong>the</strong> divisional prosecutions <strong>of</strong>fice).The male participation from Zambia is higher than <strong>the</strong> female participation: 15 <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>graduates are male, 10 are women. In <strong>the</strong> focus group that was held in Lusaka allparticipants were male.In Zambia, both graduates working in Lusaka <strong>and</strong> some outside were interviewed tosee whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong>re was any difference in terms <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir involvement on women’s lawissues after having graduated. There was not such a substantial difference as <strong>the</strong> oneswho were stationed outside Lusaka primarily worked in <strong>the</strong> police <strong>and</strong> worked onissues relate to women <strong>and</strong> children.Moreover, two employers <strong>of</strong> graduates in <strong>the</strong> police were interviewed <strong>and</strong> some keyin<strong>for</strong>mants, among <strong>the</strong>m two female judges - one working in <strong>the</strong> Supreme Court <strong>the</strong>o<strong>the</strong>r working in <strong>the</strong> high court. The one working in <strong>the</strong> Supreme Court happened tobe a graduate <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> women’s law diploma at University <strong>of</strong> Oslo from 1988. Inaddition, some key in<strong>for</strong>mants were from in organisations under Ministry <strong>of</strong> Justice,such as <strong>the</strong> deputy director <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> law development commission <strong>and</strong> one from <strong>the</strong>NGO WLSA Zambia. In Zambia, <strong>the</strong> composition <strong>of</strong> graduates in terms <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>irwork places <strong>and</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>essional background is different from Zimbabwe. Several <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>graduates have come from <strong>the</strong> police <strong>and</strong> have a non-lawyers background.Some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> graduates work in organisations which are organisationally placed under<strong>the</strong> Ministry <strong>of</strong> Justice, such as <strong>the</strong> Law Development Commission, while o<strong>the</strong>rswork in organisations associated with law practice, such as two graduates in <strong>the</strong>national legal aid clinics (In Lusaka <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> central province). The national legal aidclinic is under <strong>the</strong> Law Association <strong>of</strong> Zambia <strong>and</strong> reports to <strong>the</strong> women’scommittee in <strong>the</strong> Law association <strong>of</strong> Zambia. The reason <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> lack <strong>of</strong> recruitmentfrom magistrates <strong>and</strong> ministry <strong>of</strong> justice are likely to be <strong>the</strong> self-recruitment among