Global Appeal 2025

Internal displacement

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This page describes UNHCR’s plans for 2025 to respond to situations of internal displacement as a consequence of conflict and violence.

A girl walks barefoot on a dirt path between inadequate shelters in Amaar bin Yasser site in Yemen. In 2024, 18.2 million people in Yemen were in need of humanitarian assistance, including 4.5 million who were internally displaced. Around 1.5 million of them live in nearly 2,400 collective displacement sites, which are often incredibly overcrowded, with limited water and hygiene facilities. © UNHCR/Gregory Doane

Global financial needs amount to $1.518 billion (-20% vs 2024 current budget)

By mid-2024, around 70 million people who had fled conflict or violence were displaced within their own country. The numbers have doubled in the past decade and are set to double again by 2030, based on current trends. With its legal and protection expertise, its operational delivery and its coordination of humanitarian responses, in 2025 UNHCR will aim to support States in their responsibility to protect, assist and find solutions for internally displaced people (IDPs). We will seek the strengthening of legal and policy frameworks in at least 20 countries, and convene State-to-State exchanges on addressing internal displacement.