UNHCR - Institutional Support - 2016

This grant represents Canada's institutional support to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). UNHCR uses these funds along with other donors’ funding to achieve its mandate of leading and coordinating international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. It provides international protection and assistance to refugees internally displaced and stateless persons while searching for durable solutions and ensuring that their basic needs are met. With GAC’s support UNHCR’s emergency operations in 123 countries provide protection and assistance to an estimated 35.8 million displaced people. Project activities include: (1) providing shelter clothing and other essential non-food items to people of concern (including refugees internally displaced persons and stateless people); (2) providing adequate sanitation services; (3) working with governments to register asylum seekers and refugees and to help issue identity documents; (4) working to uphold the social and economic standing of persons of concern; and (5) working with governments to support refugee self-reliance and forge peaceful relations between refugees and local citizens.

The expected immediate outcomes include: (1) increased access to territorial protection and asylum procedures and protection for refugees asylum seekers and stateless persons; (2) increased issuance of birth certificates to newborns and increased levels of individual registration in refugee situations; (3) increased access to support for survivors of violence particularly sexual and gender-based violence; (4) lower mortality morbidity and malnutrition rates; and (5) increased access to safe water hygiene and livelihood necessities for vulnerable persons. The expected intermediate outcome is reduced vulnerability of crisis-affected people especially women and children.