What you will find in the Global Appeal
Funding UNHCR's programmes
In this section, you will find more about how UNHCR plans to protect and assist people in 2024. The activities described underscore the transformative power of collective action. But collective action requires support and resourcing.
Budget requirements
The 2024 budget of $10.622 billion is designed to enable UNHCR and its partners to provide life-saving protection, assistance and solutions in new and existing displacement situations to a projected planning figure of 130.8 million forcibly displaced and stateless people.
Focus Areas
“Focus Areas” describe five topics requiring a particular strategic focus. Each section explains the anticipated global needs in 2024 and describes how UNHCR plans to respond.
Outcome and Enabling Areas
UNHCR’s various activities around the world are described by 16 “Outcome Areas”, while the “Enabling Areas” describe plans for making UNHCR work in a more efficient and effective way.
Regional overviews
UNHCR’s operations are covered by seven regional bureaux. Its work in each region is summarized here, along with the budgetary needs foreseen in each region.
Situations
This section describes the outlook for situations of forced displacement and statelessness that have arisen from conflicts or emergencies around the world.
These situations typically involve diverse needs and are often protracted, with people seeking asylum in multiple neighbouring countries as well as within the borders of their own country.
Operational
These pages elaborate the strategies of 57 UNHCR operations around the world in 2024. Their overarching goals are set out in a series of “Impact statements”, each supported by a number of “Outcome statements” that show how UNHCR plans to work with others to progress towards those goals in 2024.
The Global Compact on Refugees
UNHCR co-hosts and co-convenes together with select governments the Global Refugee Forum, the world’s largest international gathering on refugees, first held in 2019.
Pledging Conference documents
UNHCR is pleased to share the results of the UNHCR Pledging Conference held on Tuesday, 5 December 2023.
2024 needs at a glance
UNHCR needs
$10.622 billion
to support an expected
130.8 million
forcibly displaced and
stateless people
in 133 countries and territories
and
508 locations
When people are forced to flee from their homes through no fault of their own, they should be able to continue living in dignity and safety in a new place, and to go home as soon as it is safe to do so. However, the system is under pressure like never before.
Global population planning figures 2024
Outcome and Enabling Areas
UNHCR’s plans and actions are tracked under 16 Outcome Areas. These describe the various ways in which UNHCR works with others to bring about positive changes in the lives of forcibly displaced and stateless people.
The five Enabling Areas cover the internal support and management functions needed to run UNHCR’s programmes and help the organization work more efficiently and effectively.
Outcome Area 1
Outcome Area 5
Outcome Area 12
Outcome Area 7
Outcome Area 11
Enabling Areas
Outcome Area 4
Outcome Area 10
Outcome Area 16
Outcome Area 3
Outcome Area 15
Outcome Area 6
Outcome Area 13
Outcome Area 2
Outcome Area 9
Outcome Area 14
Outcome Area 8
Focus Areas
Some aspects of UNHCR’s strategy deserve a particular focus but have implications that cut across many different areas of work.
UNHCR aims to ensure forcibly displaced and stateless people can have their voices heard and get the information they need. Nobody should be left behind, nor disadvantaged by their age, gender or diversity.
The climate crisis is amplifying the drivers of forced displacement and increasing the need for humanitarian assistance and protection. Global needs in 2024 amount to $1.074 billion.
In 2024 it is predicted that the number of people displaced by violence and conflict will reach almost 63 million. $1.975 billion is required to meet their needs and respond to internal displacement.
UNHCR aims for 70,000 people to acquire a nationality in 2024. UNHCR seeks $151 million to tackle statelessness, which deprives people of the basic rights and protections associated with nationality.
Humanitarian action cannot be the sole tool for addressing forced displacement and statelessness, and UNHCR is working to deepen the involvement of development actors, a powerful force in fragile economies.
Regional overviews
UNHCR’s operations are covered by seven regional bureaux.
2024 begins against a bleak backdrop in Asia and the Pacific with frequent humanitarian crises and climate-induced emergencies, crippling insecurity and economic instability.
The East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region is expected to host 23.6 million forcibly displaced and stateless people by the end of 2024.
Europe’s forcibly displaced and stateless population is projected to increase by 2% in 2024, to 24.9 million people.
The region's protracted humanitarian crises and political and security challenges will continue in 2024. A string of new emergencies struck the region in 2023, adding to existing crises.
The number of forcibly displaced people, returnees, and stateless people in the 16 countries of the southern Africa region is expected to rise to 12.2 million in 2024.
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Colombia, Central America, Mexico and Haiti have all experienced further significant displacement, and in 2024, the region's forcibly displaced and stateless population is expected to reach 25 million.
Political instability and armed conflict in West and Central Africa are expected to drive the number of forcibly displaced and stateless people up by 9% to 13.6 million in 2024.
Operational Strategies
These pages elaborate the strategies of 57 UNHCR operations around the world in 2024. Their overarching goals are set out in a series of “Impact statements”, each supported by a number of “Outcome statements” that show how UNHCR plans to work with others to progress towards those goals in 2024.
The Global Compact on Refugees
The Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) is a framework for more predictable and equitable responsibility-sharing, recognizing that a sustainable solution to refugee situations cannot be achieved without international cooperation.
The Global Refugee Forum is an opportunity for governments and other actors to show their solidarity with countries hosting refugees and other displaced populations by pledging their support for policies and programmes that advance the objectives of the GCR.
By the end of October 2023, 33% of pledges reported on by pledging entities had been fulfilled, and 67% were in progress, including long-term policy commitments.