Strategy 2010 was the first attempt to create a strategic plan for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (hereinafter referred to as ‘the International Federation’).
It was developed as an aspirational strategy and introduced a number of important paradigm shifts.
- the need to contribute to the empowerment of communities and vulnerable people;
- the importance of capacity building for National Societies and communities;
- vulnerability as the lens to direct all International Federation activities;
- the desire to focus on common areas of work;
- the need to strengthen ways of working effectively as an International Federation;
- advocacy as an action agenda to be developed.