Global Appeal 2025

Well-being and basic needs

OUTCOME AREA 8

This page describes how UNHCR aims to meet the basic needs of forcibly displaced and stateless people in 2025, including by distributing cash, providing people with relief items, and providing fuel and equipment for clean cooking.

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Beneficiaries receiving cash grants at the Kabul Encashment Centre, Afghanistan. © UNHCR/Mushtaq Ahmad Munawarzada
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Global financial needs amount to $2.079 billion (-11% vs 2024 current budget)

SDG 1 - No poverty

When people are forced to flee, they often arrive in new locations with very little, and need immediate support. The most cost-efficient way to support them is with cash. In 2025, UNHCR plans to disburse $500 million in cash to 5 million people in 100 countries, as well as co-chairing the group advising on coordinating cash in humanitarian settings, developing new cash guidelines and expanding the global footprint of our cash management system. Our seven emergency stockpiles are ready to provide relief items such as blankets for up to 1 million people, and we are working to reduce costs and carbon emissions, with more suppliers, greener product standards, and support for refugees’ use of clean cooking fuels.

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Core Outcome Indicators

cash


Proportion of people that receive cash transfers 
and/or non-food items

 

 

stove


Proportion of people with primary reliance 
on clean (cooking) fuels and technology


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Core Output Indicators
 

cash assistance

Number of people who received cash assistance*
2024 Mid-year progress:  2.16 million

 *97 country operations reporting

 

NFIs

Number of people who received non-food items*
2024 Mid-year progress:  2.68 million

 *59 country operations reporting

 

cooking

Number of people supported with improved cooking options*
2024 Mid-year progress: 749,000

 *20 country operations reporting

Financial overview