This Impact Report reflects a year of meaningful progress and transition for the Global Self-Care Federation (GSCF), as we advanced our mission to position self-care as an essential pillar of resilient, person-centred health systems worldwide. Guided by the launch of our 2025–2028 Strategy, the Federation strengthened its foundations, expanded its global engagement, and delivered concrete impact across policy, regulatory, and partnership priorities.

The past year marked an important phase of organisational evolution for GSCF. We implemented key governance reforms, including the establishment of a new Executive Committee, completed our transition to Geneva, and created an informal Heads of Associations group to strengthen strategic coordination across our membership. These changes have positioned the Federation to operate with greater agility and influence at a time of significant transformation in global health governance—shaped by WHO reform, geopolitical uncertainty, and mounting economic pressures.

Against this backdrop, GSCF has continued to elevate the role of self-care within global health policy. At the UN High-Level Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases and throughout negotiations on the Political Declaration, the Federation played a central role in securing recognition of self-care as a critical enabler of access, empowerment, and health system sustainability. 

Our United for Self-Care Coalition expanded with two new members and advanced a more unified NCD agenda, while engagement at WHA78, including collaboration with WHO on the Be Healthy, Be Mobile initiative, and across WHO Regional Committees helped embed self-care more firmly in national and global strategies.