Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission Strategic Plan 2015-2020 2. APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY This section outlines the approach and methodology adopted in the Strategic Planning process. 2.1 SCOPE OF THE STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS This Strategic Plan is the inaugural plan crafted by the ZHRC to guide the direction of its operations for the 5-year period to July 2020. The Commission undertook a full-scope planning process, involving extensive consultations with stakeholders, as well as the use of conventional planning tools and strategy implementation models. It goes without saying that, notwithstanding the limitation to a five-year planning horizon, such superordinate goals as the vision, mission, and core values are enduring over much longer periods of time. 2.2 PLANNING PROCESS Beginning with the end, the Commission crafted its vision based on the desired long-term impacts expected as a result of the successful implementation of the ZHRC strategic plan. The Commission proceeded to establish broad medium-term goals and associated outcomes, before developing a detailed Strategic Action Plan based on the Impact Plan and the Outcomes Plan, and following the balanced scorecard framework. Resources Resources Results INPUTS (resources) ACTIVITIES (interventions) OUTPUTS (products) The financial, human and material resources used to support strategic intervention. Actions and interventions taken to transform or mobilize inputs to produce specific outputs. The products of said activities and interventions (whether capital goods or services). How? OUTCOMES (effects) The short and medium term changes or effects of outputs on the environment, or community. Planning Implementation 11 IMPACTS (changes) Actual or intended longterm changes as measured by improvement in human life & well-being. Why?