Our initial strategy for 2019-2022

At our launch in April 2019, we published our first strategic plan, outlining our mission and vision, and containing goals that would guide us through our first 3,5 years (2019-2022).

Our initial strategy endorsed and actively contributed to Cochrane’s Strategy to 2020 and to Cochrane's Knowledge Translation Framework. The main goals to achieve its mission were fixed along the main tasks of Cochrane Fields, as defined by the Cochrane Central Executive Team:

1. Network building;
2. Building demand/advocacy;
3. Knowledge translation outputs;
4. Stakeholder engagement;
5. Review production.

We are proud and happy to have made great progress in all of our strategic goals. Our achievements have been summarized and highlighted in our annual reports of 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Strategy for 2023-2025

During 2019 and 2020, Cochrane developed a new organizational strategic framework for 2021 onwards that would help the organisation go further in realizing its vision of a world of better health for all people. This framework was nearing completion following wide consultation. Of course, Cochrane First Aid planned to graft its strategy onto it. However, due to the unprecedented global events of the past years, Cochrane is now operating in quite a different strategic environment. Its Governing Board has decided to pause work on a longer-term framework and focus instead on short-term changes the organization needs to make to remain sustainable. These changes are set out in their new interim plan, the Strategy for Change: 2021-2023.

As the long-term strategic direction of Cochrane is currently uncertain, and it may be unclear up to 2025 how Cochrane Fields will fit into the new organisational strategy and structure, Cochrane First Aid has decided not to develop an entirely new strategic plan. Instead, in 2023-2025, we will build further on our previous 5 strategic goals, keeping in mind the Strategy for Change: 2021-2023.
In addition, we introduce a 6th strategic goal, i.e. facilitating primary research in first aid, based on our stakeholders' needs.
Finally, a 7th strategic goal is to explore, together with other existing Cochrane Groups with similar thematic focuses, how we can position CFA within the new Cochrane structure.

Our full strategic plan for 2023-2025 can be accessed here