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Global Appeal 2025


This Global Appeal highlights UNHCR’s plans for 2025 and the funding it needs to protect, assist and empower a record number of forcibly displaced and stateless people, and to help them find solutions to their situations.

 

A full response to this Appeal would allow UNHCR to prepare in advance, anticipate challenges, and engage strategically on a systematic and multi-year basis when needed.

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Read more about UNHCR's areas of work

People fleeing the conflict in Sudan receive emergency assistance in Adre, Chad, before being relocated away from the border to a site with more suitable conditions. UNHCR and partners have built six such sites since Sudan's conflict erupted in April 2023, and expanded 10 existing ones. Over 330,000 refugees have been relocated, but many are still in spontaneous sites like Adre, and resources are needed for settlements with shelters, water infrastructure, health centres and schools. © UNHCR/Andrew McConnel
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"In the last few months, conflict, persecution, and violence have forced millions to flee their homes – in Sudan, Ukraine, and most recently in Lebanon. Millions more have been displaced for years, decades even, having fled bloodshed and instability, from Myanmar to the Democratic Republic of Congo, and many other places in between. 

This Global Appeal 2025 describes how, against this backdrop, and with few solutions on the horizon, we expect forced displacement and statelessness to evolve in the coming year, what we plan to do about it, and why your support is more needed than ever"

Filippo Grandi, UNHCR High Commissioner [read the full foreword]

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What will you find in this Global Appeal?


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Our funding requirements

This section explores UNHCR's funding requirements for 2025. We count on your support to help us do our part to deliver assistance and protection, alleviate human suffering, and move into a better future.

Read more about our Funding Requirements

UNHCR, and partners, provide support for Syrian and Lebanese

Our impact

This section examines four overarching "Impact Areas" where UNHCR wants to see positive changes in the lives of forcibly displaced and stateless people.

Read more about Impact Areas

The floods in the Koukou department, hosting the Goz-Amir refugee settlement, this year have been reported as the worst since 1972, significantly affecting both the local population and the refugee community. Areas previously habitable are now submerged, leading to displacement and loss of property.

Our focus

This section covers areas of strategic focus for UNHCR, including climate action, addressing internal displacement and statelessness, working with development partners, ensuring accountability to affected populations and advocating alternatives to dangerous journeys.

Read more about Areas of Strategic Focus

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Our outcomes

This section examines what UNHCR wants to achieve in 2025 showing various activities in 16 "Outcome Areas", with targets, budgets and possible challenges.

Read more about our Outcome Areas

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Our support and management

This section covers the support and management functions needed to run UNHCR's programmes and help the organization work more efficiently and effectively. It includes a section on UNHCR's strategic partnerships.

Read more about Enabling Areas

 

In addition to offering a global overview of our planning for 2025, we also provide in-depth analysis at the regional, situational, and country levels.

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Limiya | A Sudanese refugee in South Sudan

When violence erupted in Khartoum in April 2023, Limiya Daud thought at first that it was just another protest. She soon realized it was far more serious. Limiya and her children left their home that evening, heading south on foot to the city of Kosti.

“We didn't want to leave Sudan. It wasn't until a bomb fell on our neighbour's house, that we decided to leave.”

The family later continued further south and crossed the border into South Sudan, arriving at a transit centre in the town of Renk, which was receiving around 1,000 people daily. UNHCR helped the family move 300km to an established refugee camp in Maban county, where she was able to start a business selling food, which helped to provide for her children.

“Things are difficult, but I wish my children can get a good education, good health care and security here.”

See the video. © UNHCR/Samuel Otieno

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Snapshot from our data

 

Download the 2024 snapshot and 2025 snapshot (planning figures).

2025 Budget breakdown

Major budgets over the years

 
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Where have people fled to over the past 10 years?


2025 Top 10 hosting countries

Major hosting countries

 

 

 

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Global Appeal 2025 snapshot

 

Explore the data and country narratives underlying the global picture, or download the Executive Summary for an overview of the content of this Global Appeal.

Download the Executive Summary in your preferred language:

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Read more about UNHCR's areas of work

 

Download core outcome indicators information

Explore detailed country planning

 

Please contact us if you have research or other questions about our data and analysis.

The maps in this appeal do not imply the expression of any opinion on the part of UNHCR concerning the legal status of any country or territory or area, of its authorities, or the delimitation of frontiers or boundaries. Data in this report are drawn from the most recent statistics available to UNHCR, and from other United Nations agencies.

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Launch event



The Global Appeal 2025 was officially presented during the annual Pledging Conference on 3 December 2024, where donors were invited and encouraged to show their support for UNHCR's work by announcing financial commitments for the coming year.


The session included a presentation of UNHCR's financial needs for 2025, and statements from Member States.

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