Mr Charles Mudehwe: Busy at Work! While Mr. Mudehwe maintained that the organization was determined to conduct more prisons visits Year 2008 was difficult not only to ZACRO but to other Civil organizations. The economic environment characterized by hyperinflation, poor funding and inadequate resources negatively impacted on visitation programming during this period Under review. Planning Given the harsh economic environment in the country and a host of other related problems on the ground - planning for prison visits programming was important and had to be undertaken by ZACRO of which the following components within planning were considered by the organization. • Availability of resources • Knowledge on combination of prisons to be visited especially those within the same route • The timing of the visits and which other program personnel to also benefit from the program • Assessment of the areas where ZACRO is likely to get the most impact. Situational Analysis. Mainly ZACRO carried out prisons visits to be acquainted with situational analysis of the prisons and when carrying out the situational analysis one was: • Supposed to know the target group. TARGET GROUPS were: • To be familiar with The sentenced and remanded offenders, prison officers. prison wardens, officers and the immediate • To undertake close prison population for they stood better observation and questionnaire platform when shedding light into the data gathering official plight of the offenders and their needs. 18