On the 30th of April 2024, six INERELA+ Country Networks (Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, South Africa, and Botswana) that are implementing the SAVE the Children project participated in a capacity-building workshop facilitated by Natasha Ntini the Gender and Public Policy Specialist from Southern African Parliamentary Support Trust (SAPST). The training workshop was conducted in line with the SAVE the Children Civil Society Strengthening Organisational Development Plan (OD) derived from initial assessment Organisational Capacity Assessment (OCA) conducted internally by INERELA+ Secretariat to evaluate Country Networks strengths and weaknesses in programming, governance, institutional capacity and how they network with external stakeholders. The workshop titled Legislative and Policy Advocacy in Parliament focused on how Country Networks can improve their approach to advocacy for child rights, against CEFMU, GBV and Teenage Pregnancies. Country Networks were made to understand parliaments, and how parliaments operate. The facilitator provoked discussion on the best practices when Country Networks approached parliamentarians, parliamentary committees and other stakeholders on policy advocacy, policy issues and policy amendments. The facilitator also coached the participants on how Country Networks can strengthen their relationship with Members of Parliament in their areas through an MOU. There is need to develop an informative and effective MOU that convinces parliamentarians to take up advocacy matters with their committees in parliament. Before the capacity building session Country Networks were not aware that before conducting any advocacy or engaging parliament on key issues affecting children there was a need to always carry out a context analysis, particularly a Political & Economic Analysis (PEA); Always build or gather strong evidence before engagement; Keeping eyes on the calendar and the legislative agenda; Strengthening the partnership through an MOU. Country Networks confirmed through a post-survey that the workshop challenged their knowledge of legislative and Policy Advocacy in Parliament which sounded very new especially given that previously they had no strategy or understanding of what should be done before engaging parliament, parliamentary committee, or Member of Parliament on policy advocacy issues.