is still in lower rank than other Constitutional and Other Statutory Agencies. There are a number of challenges and limits effected to credibility of the Commission, such as: the sub-committee’s mechanism, process and system; the delay of trustworthiness and quality of reports issued; the findings of comprehensive information for discretion on grounds of violation; and the impracticability of proposed solutions and recommendations in reports, etc. Thus, in the processes with development of further Strategic Plan of the NHRCT, B.E. 2560 – 2565 (2017 – 2022), it deems necessary to delicately and systematically consider challenges and various problems for (1) giving the clear direction and sound strategies for work of NHRCT for solving problems above; (2) generating measures to ensure ongoing activities carried out by the NHRCT with efficiency and effectiveness; and (3) creating trusts and reliabilities of the NHRCT among and from government agencies and private sectors including the public. These would help to reinstate and articulate values and necessities of the Commission in line with the intents for establishing the Commission. So that the development of NHRCT’s Strategic Plan, B.E. 2560 – 2565 (2017 – 2022) and the implementation of this Plan to achieve the goals indeed need to rely on both internal and external key factors which are about the clear and substantive situation analysis, starting from the undertaking of SWOT analysis with criticism on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT), identification of stakeholders, initiatives of leadership, partaking and focusing on the same goals, division of tasks and labors delegated by Boards of Directors to frontline officers, drawing-up and extraction of lessons-learned from case studies and prioritization of strategies. The design of strategies and tactics hereby is based on the applying of principles of Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and Strategic Planning. 2. HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN THAILAND The human rights situation analysis helps to extract and verify sound and reliable findings and information with indicators and benchmarks measures for human rights situation in Thailand and its trend. The analysis on human rights situation in Thailand in this Strategic Plan relies on secondary data analyzed and primary data given with additional opinions of the Commission, executives of Office of the NHRCT, human rights-responsive and knowledgeable persons from various sectors, representatives from civil society organizations, from private sectors and from human rights-responsive international agencies working in Thailand as well as from the Administrative Section and Judiciary, by using the Scenario Analysis forecasting and determining frameworks and directions of the NHRCT’s Strategic Plan, B.E. 2560 - 2565 (2017 - 2022). In reference to reports of agencies compiling human rights situation, such as: (1) Human Rights Situation Report on the Appraisal on Thailand, B.E. 2457 - 2550 (2004 - 2007) and B.E. 2557 (2014) of the NHRCT; (2) Report on Human Rights Situation in Thailand prepared by Human Rights Watch; (3) Report on Human Rights Situation of the U.S. Embassy and Consulate in Thailand prepared by Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; (4) Report on Human Rights Situation, B.E. 2558 - 2559 (2015 - 2016) of Amnesty International; (5) Human Rights Situation Report made by Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR); and (6) Report on Performance and Achievement of the implementation in First Half Period, B.E. 2552 - 2554 (2009 - 2011) in compliance with the 2nd National Human Rights Plan, B.E. 2552 - 2556 (2009 - 2013), evaluated by Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Mahidol University. These all reports address issues of concerns with human rights situation in Thailand as: (1) the political conflict incidents causing the Government to announce the Emergency Situation to Executive Summary: NHRCT’s Strategic Plan (2017 - 2022) Page No. 2 from 14