A6. The Tanzanian Chapter in collaboration with six other media fraternity, under the Media Law Reform Project, commissioned lawyers to draft six laws to be presented to the stakeholders for more inputs. These pieces of legislation identified in the Media Law Reform Project are Access to the Information Act, Constitutional Amendment Act, Amendment to the National Security Act of 1970, Amendment to the Broadcasting Services Act 1993, Defamation Act and Protection to the Journalist Sources of Information Act. The Media Law Reform Project is an ongoing activity funded by CAF, The Law Reform Commission and SIDA. The draft laws will be submitted to the stakeholders for more inputs before the National Conference. The second attempt is to submit the draft legislation to the Parliament and in the meantime the six media fraternities will continue to lobby and carry out advocacy campaigns. A7. MISA Zambia/ZIMA concentrated on the introduction of a Freedom of Information Act. The Chapter held meetings with all the stakeholders including journalists from both the state and private media. Input was sourced from some academics and lawyers and it was at this workshop that it was decided that Members of Parliament should be involved in the whole process at an early stage so that they could understand what the campaign was all about. The second stage involved the engagement of lawyers to help draw up a draft of Freedom of Information bill, which was to be tabled before Parliament. Because of the slight majority of opposition members of Parliament it was intended that the Bill should be tabled as a private members motion. After the meeting with MPs from both the ruling and the opposition parties, it was felt that ZIMA members in particular needed to understand the three bills campaign that were being advocated for. The ZIMA AGM which was partly sponsored by MISA and DANIDA specifically focussed on the bills and the role that ZIMA members were expected to play, namely to publicise the campaign. After the bills were drafted another meeting with MPs was held to finally scrutinise them. Lobbying with Parliamentarians intensified alongside publicity of the FOI bill on radio and television as well newspapers. “Media and the Public”, a TV discussion programe produced by ZIMA continued to be a tool for public awareness and participation in the law reform process. 8