Global Appeal 2025

Community engagement and women's empowerment

OUTCOME AREA 7

This page describes UNHCR’s plans for 2025 to support community-based protection, to promote the involvement of grass-roots organizations and women’s representation and leadership, and to protect refugees who were at particular risk due to disability, age, gender or other areas of diversity.

A woman fixing phones
Manal Jumaa, a 42-year-old Syrian refugee, fled with her family in 2013 and took refuge in Zaatari camp, Jordan, and struggled to provide income for her six children. After a training course provided by UNHCR, through its partner Blumont, she became the first refugee woman to start mobile phone repairs in the camp. © UNHCR/Shawkat Alharfoush
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Global financial needs amount to $598 million (-4% vs 2024 current budget)

SDG 5 - Gender Equality

Humanitarian responses often fail to reflect the concerns of forcibly displaced and stateless people, undermining their rights and their agency and potentially putting them at greater risk. In 2025, UNHCR will support hundreds of grassroots organizations and invest in strengthening communication channels. We will carry out more participatory assessments (having involved 130,000 people in assessments in 62 countries in the first half of 2024); promote women’s equal participation, empowerment, digital inclusion and leadership; and seek to enhance the protection, empowerment and inclusion of LGBTIQ+ individuals.

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Core Outcome Indicators

participation


Extent participation of displaced and stateless people across programme phases is supported


 

feedback


Proportion of people who have access to safe 
feedback and response mechanisms


 

equality


Proportion of women participating in 
leadership/management structures


Download detailed indicator information for the top 10 operations.

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Core Output Indicators
 

assessment participatory

Number of people consulted through Participatory Assessments*
2024 Mid-year progress: 133,000

*96 country operations reporting

 
response mechanism

Number of people who used UNHCR-supported feedback & response mechanisms to voice their needs/concerns/feedback*
2024 Mid-year progress:  2.32 million

*96 country operations reporting

 
protection services

Number of people who received protection services*
2024 Mid-year progress:  8.03 million

*84 country operations reporting

Financial overview