Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission Strategic Plan 2015-2020 2.7 ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN The Commission recognizes that strategic planning must be done in context. A thorough review of the external environment was carried out to determine macro-environmental factors that may affect ZHRC’s operations, directly or indirectly. The PESTLEG analysis identified those factors (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Environmental and Governance), in the macro-environment that affect the operations of the Commission. A table summarizing the PESTLEG Analysis of ZHRC is included as Table 1 in the Appendix of this Strategic Plan. The table highlights the factors in the left column; and analyses, in the right column, the potential implications (if any) of such factors, to ZHRC’s strategy. 2.8 INTERNAL ANALYSIS In order to identify issues requiring strategic intervention or redress, a SWOC Analysis was undertaken to evaluate the ZHRC’s internal strengths and weakness, as well as the opportunities and challenges emanating from the external environment. Participants developed various strategies to consolidate ZHRC’s internal strengths, exploit external opportunities, address and turn around internal weaknesses and develop defensive mechanisms to protect it from external challenges. Table 2, summarizing the SWOC Analysis of ZHRC is included as part of the Appendix of this Strategic Plan. 14