UNHCR - Institutional Support - 2013

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. UNHCR’s mandate is to lead and coordinate international action for the protection of refugees and resolution of 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 DFATD’s support UNHCR’s emergency operations in 123 countries provide protection and assistance to an estimated 35.4 million displaced people. Main activities include: (1) providing shelter clothing and other essential non-food items to people of concern; (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 for this project include: (1) improved access to life-saving assistance including shelter clothing non-food items sanitation and protection services; (2) improved access to territorial protection and asylum procedures and protection against refoulement; and (3) and improved capacity of governments to consider the adoption of nationality laws that prevent and/or reduce statelessness. The expected intermediate outcome is reduced vulnerability of crisis-affected people especially women and children.