Initial Outlined 2008 ZACRO Programming Activities • • • • • • • • • • Prison visits Rehabilitation of inmates involving facilitation of micro projects in the prisons and rendering educational assistance Re-integration of ex-offenders Crime prevention involving society Counseling The half way home project Rendering humanitarian assistance Campaign against the death penalty Orientation Program a) In Prisons and b) For those released Creation of strategic links, documentation, staff and institutional development. Programs Management, Control and Planning. It is vital to note that as all programming activities could not take place over the year owing to the stated problems on the ground the organization had to re-examine its programs management, control and planning to suit the problems faced by the organization and other Non Governmental Organizations in the country.. However it is acknowledged that among major programs and activities ZACRO successfully managed to undertake a number of prisons visits which were important regarding unearthing situational analysis and formulating relevant intervention measures to cover the needs of the target group. However, ZACRO had to focus on fine-tuning its elements of programs management, control and planning. This was in bid to suit available resources in the face of the economic environment in Zimbabwe. Hence the organization had to hold a secretariat strategic planning workshop in Harare in June 2008 during which a clarification of the aims and objectives for each program was outlined and emphasized. This further included having a well defined target group for each program and the need to establish the standards of performance against which success is measured. As the result ZACRO had the programs defined in both quantitative and qualitative forms while having clear cut off points and clear program design and knowing that without planning and measurement there would be no control of the programs. This further called for program designing defining parameters, by which the program was to be implemented and the model of program considered too. On implementation - the actual execution of tasks to achieve the desired objectives was considered while monitoring and evaluation required feedback and a system of reporting information which was accurate, relevant 16