As of 2011, NPLH will focus on carrying out its tasks as an international NGO. The foundation will keep its registration as a Dutch non-profit foundation, and expand the contact and cooperation it has to include a more varied network of international organisations and partnerships. In order to achieve that, the foundation will undergo a change of image and communication strategy based on its new choice of official language, English. The foundation will continue to delegate academic research on the level of ICA, closing off its first stage of research and starting off the second one. In order to achieve its goals, NPLH will set up a research facility in the course of 2011 and 2012.

The second stage of research will differ from the first stage on various levels. The main differences can be summarised in the following points:

1. It will involve a range of academic levels, including BA, MA and PhD researchers as opposed to only the BA researchers that carried out the research in Stage 1;
2. The research will include several subject terrains, namely international civil and criminal law, psychology, mediation, anthropology and culture, statistics, and organisational structures, institutions and politics;
3. The project will involve paid positions for ongoing research programmes that will continue over a period ranging from 3 months to 4 years. Many of the research projects will be the first steps of an ongoing project which will require continuous updating. For example, the status of inter-country agreements is constantly changing due to the bilateral agreements formed between nations. The first part of the second stage of research will involve the collection of data, while the second part will focus on checking for changes in the international sphere;
4. It will aim at collecting a continuous stream of information that will be used to provide the knowledge that is needed to fuel an information centre. By 2016, NPLH aspires to launch a specialised, objective and independent knowledge centre for ICA. The foundation aims to open the centre to the public in 2017.

On the level of political involvement, the foundation will set out to offer recommendations and trigger debates which will further improve the guarding of the best interest of the child in the execution of ICA cases. NPLH will seek the best route to trigger changes in regulations and institutions to continue their progress along the lines of the above mentioned accomplishments.

The foundation will continue to seek co-operation with international partners and attempt to offer objective and specialised recommendations to participants of the Hague Conference and other decision makers and specialists. NPLH will further seek cooperation with other institutions and experts to help formulate recommendations for decision makers on the best practices of mediation, how such programmes can be implemented, and how to measure impact assessment. The main role of the foundation is to prepare project proposals for sustainable research programmes together with experts, and seek the necessary financial support to carry those programmes out.

Once the foundation obtains sufficient academic knowledge on the different practices in ICA cases, mediation and dealing with cultural differences, it will set out to become a gatekeeper for the spreading of knowledge related to these topics. It will do so by providing support to information sessions, workshops and educational programmes that are approved by the foundation.

By 2017, NPLH aims to gain the means to finance an office and proper research facilities to empower a knowledge centre. This information centre will not only provide information to decision makers, experts and individuals. It will also aim at preventing child abduction by informing society about the different aspects of international parenthood and guardianship. In time, the foundation may explore the possibilities of introducing training series and educational programmes for all ages to raise awareness and decrease the number of ICA by informing individuals.