This strategy document provides a road map to help civil society realize its potential in the 16 priority countries identified before November 2017. There is also an urgent need to capacitate civil society in the 10 new GFF priority countries announced in November 2017, which were was not included in the costing of the CSES implementation plan, and strengthen global civil society engagement with the GFF. Annex 1 and 2 outline a strategy based on different country classifications as outlined in the CSES implementation plan; and Annex 2 highlights a number of countries for potential focus based on their unique circumstances. It is important to emphasize that this document is a strategy on overall civil society engagement with GFF as a mechanism and not civil society engagement on a particular technical area, such as PHC, RH or MH, that may be contained in a country’s GFF implementation plan.