Italy Multi-Country Office

The UNHCR Multi-Country Office in Italy provides support to refugees, asylum seekers, and stateless people in Italy, the Holy See, and San Marino.

 

$22.1 million

are urgently needed from January to December 2024

Check the latest Funding Update

UNHCR staff welcoming refugees
UNHCR staff welcome, inform and assist refugees and people in need of international protection arriving from Libya to Italy as part of a three-year Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and several Italian civil society organisations. ©UNHCR/Alessandro Penso
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Located in Rome, UNCHR’s Multi-Country Office for Italy, the Holy See, and San Marino works to support refugees, asylum-seekers, and stateless people, with a focus on three critical areas:

  • Enhancing the protection environment and government policies for forcibly displaced and stateless people to ensure they meet international protection standards.
  • Ensuring refugees, asylum-seekers, stateless people and host communities have access to sustainable solutions. This also includes ensuring access to national systems, and a consolidated mechanism for identifying and referring people with specific needs.
  • Strengthening opportunities for complementary pathways and inclusion of forcibly displaced and stateless people.


These efforts are strengthened through strategic partnerships with government bodies, municipalities, NGOs, the private sector, the Holy See, and faith-based organizations, as well as enhanced public engagement and media outreach.


Additionally, UNHCR aims to enhance Italy’s role as a global UNHCR partner by increasing national investment in inclusion and complementary pathways, in line with commitments made at the Global Refugee Forum and the European Union level.

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Populations

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Population types

Note: The "Stateless" category does not include stateless people who are also in other categories, to avoid double counting. The total number of stateless, across all categories, is  .

NB: 2025 figures are planning figures.

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder for years until 2022, UNHCR planning figures (COMPASS) otherwise.

Population by country

NB: 2025 figures are planning figures.

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder for years until 2022, UNHCR planning figures (COMPASS) otherwise.

Population by origin

NB: 2025 figures are planning figures.

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder for years until 2022, UNHCR planning figures (COMPASS) otherwise.

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Financials

Budget and expenditure trend

Source: 2025 budget was approved by ExCom in October 2024 while the 2024 budget figures include the latest supplementary appeals and are updated on a monthly basis.

Budget by pillar

Budget by objective

Note: The table presents the  budget for this operation broken down at the objective level. Resource allocation at the objective level is subject to change during the course of the year as the operational situation evolves and priorities shift. The current budget, reflected in the bottom line of this table, is updated on a monthly basis and is replaced by the final budget at year-end.

Expenditure by Outcome Area

Budget by Impact Area

Protect: Attaining favourable protection environments
Respond: Realizing rights in safe environments
Empower: Empowering communities and achieving gender equality
Solve: Securing solutions

Source: 2023 budget as approved by the Executive Committee in October 2022.
2022 current budget as approved by the High Commissioner as of October 2022; pending presentation to the ExCom's Standing Committee.

Budget by Outcome and Enabling Areas

Source: 2023 budget as approved by the Executive Committee in October 2022.
2022 current budget as approved by the High Commissioner as of October 2022; pending presentation to the ExCom's Standing Committee.

Budget by Impact Area

Protect: Attaining favourable protection environments
Respond: Realizing rights in safe environments
Empower: Empowering communities and achieving gender equality
Solve: Securing solutions

Source: 2024 budget and 2023 current budget are taken from the budget document approved by UNHCR's Executive Committee in October 2023.

Budget by Impact Area

Protect: Attaining favourable protection environments
Respond: Realizing rights in safe environments
Empower: Empowering communities and achieving gender equality
Solve: Securing solutions

Source: 2025 budget was approved by ExCom in October 2024 while the 2024 budget figures include the latest supplementary appeals and are updated on a monthly basis.

Budget by Outcome and Enabling Areas

Budget by Outcome and Enabling Areas

Source: 2025 budget was approved by ExCom in October 2024 while the 2024 budget figures include the latest supplementary appeals and are updated on a monthly basis.

Budget by Impact Area

Protect: Attaining favourable protection environments
Respond: Realizing rights in safe environments
Empower: Empowering communities and achieving gender equality
Solve: Securing solutions

Budget by Outcome and Enabling Areas

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Latest updates

Italy MCO Funding Update - 2024
31-Dec-24
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1 day ago
9 - 15 December 2024
published
1 month ago
2 - 8 December 2024
published
1 month ago
25 November - 1 December 2024
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1 month ago
18 - 24 November 2024
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2 months ago
11 - 17 November 2024
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2 months ago
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UNHCR GIS data is publicly accessible in the Operational Data Portal