121 Marginalised and vulnerable groups experience difficulties in making use of the institutions of justice Alternative dispute resolutions expanded Partnership Programme with Community Police Forums aimed at strengthening civilian oversight roles is growing. Rural women in KZN, through a provincial flagship program called Sukuma Sakhe (meaning ‘stand up – let’s build’) took the responsibility of conscientising their 'girl children' about the challenges of HIV/AIDS, human trafficking, gender inequality as well as conscientising them about their rights and economic empowerment through IDPs at municipal government level programme operates at ward level and involves councilors and brings together traditional leaders church leaders and other community leaders in VictimOffender Dialogues (VOD) Continuous South Africa continues to improve access to justice and transform the judiciary by ensuring that the poor and vulnerable have easy access to justice. To this end demographic representation of society in the courts and in the legal profession has been ensured. Two hundred and forty-three (243) of the judges on the various courts are now of indigenous Africans The representation of women in the judiciary remains a challenge which government continuously seeks to address 121