UNHCR Change Process

BUILDING AN EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION FOR THE PEOPLE WE SERVE

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Regionalisation and decentralisation: moving to implementation

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Want to know more about what's behind one of the most significant transformation for UNHCR in recent times? Read the Dialogue 2018 edition. 

Open Forum with the DHC on Decentralization and Regionalization - Monday 10 December 2018 (full video)

Read the summary of what was discussed during the open forum on decentralization and regionalizatioin

Find out more about what's to come on decentralization and regionalisation. 

Directors of the new Regional Bureaux announced - 11 January 2019

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 Locations of Regional Bureaux announced  - 29  November 2018

HC announces decisions towards moving to a new organizational design - 27 October 2018

Update on decentralization and regionalization: HC announces interim preparatory measures while implementation roadmap is being developed - 30 October 2018

With skyrocketing forced displacement and shrinking humanitarian space, the external environment has changed significantly since the organization was founded almost 70 years ago. 

UNHCR can no longer deliver refugee protection and solutions alone. 

The issue of forced displacement is also visible, now more than ever, sparking a keen interest among a wider variety of actors.

UNHCR is changing to adapt to this environment and take advantage of the opportunities that lie before us, to ensure that the people under our care are protected. 

See how the change process has evolved from the launch of the HQ Review in 2016 to an organization-wide change process.

As we move forward,  keep updated on the progress of different change workstreams/ tracks.

"Change is always a complex exercise because change creates opportunities, excitement and almost inevitably creates some uncertainty." 

"That little passage through turbulence is worthwhile because it will take us to a better place and I really hope that, like me, you see this very positively as a way to enrich and strengthen our role" 

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi , October 2017 

(Click here to see the video of the HC's remarks) 

Group photo of UNHCR staff and SSSD staff and ORV’s in front of the new opened community center. ; As more and more people return to Aleppo after years of conflict UNHCR and its partners increase the response to help returnees resettle and find much needed services. UNHCR opened a new community center in Al fardous neighborhood east Aleppo to serve the returning families in Al Fardous which are estimated 7,312 (according to OCHA) UNHCR also support 18 other community center distributed in Aleppo that provide the services of protection, education, health and livelihood. © © UNHCR/Hameed Maarouf

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