Financials
UNHCR prepares a Biennial Programme Budget, broken down into annual budgets based on globally assessed needs. The original programme budget is presented to UNHCR’s main governing body, the Executive Committee (ExCom), prior to the start of the biennium. Needs are re-assessed during the biennium and a revised budget is presented to ExCom for approval in October of each year. The current budget may be adjusted for unforeseen needs that arise in the course of the year by means of supplementary budgets. The final budget from the previous year is presented to ExCom’s Standing Committee at its June/July meeting each year.
The financial information displayed on this website is subject to frequent updates and may vary from the information published in governance documents presented to the Executive Committee and its Standing Committee at their formal meetings throughout the year.
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The following table and map provide an overview of UNHCR’s budgets and expenditure for programmed activities by region and pillar. For details by subregion or operation, click on the respective links. Annual budget and expenditure details for Global Programmes and Headquarters are available in the respective Global Appeals/Reports.
2018 Global Requirements - Programmed Activities
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| Region | Pillar 1 Refugee Programme |
Pillar 2 Stateless Programme |
Pillar 3 Reintegration Projects |
Pillar 4 IDP Projects |
Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | Budget | 2,362,873,075 | 26,325,415 | 141,089,645 | 280,125,890 | 2,810,414,025 |
| Middle East and North Africa | Budget | 1,347,621,586 | 1,313,445 | 259,200,000 | 873,427,391 | 2,481,562,422 |
| Asia and the Pacific | Budget | 535,065,301 | 31,363,017 | 100,215,758 | 34,302,885 | 700,946,962 |
| Europe | Budget | 835,537,362 | 10,757,356 | 162,653 | 29,213,817 | 875,671,189 |
| Americas | Budget | 165,703,063 | 9,341,473 | 0 | 21,556,495 | 196,601,031 |
| Global Programmes and Headquarters | Budget | 677,655,736 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 677,655,736 |
| Total Programmed Activities | Budget | 5,924,456,123 | 79,100,706 | 500,668,057 | 1,238,626,479 | 7,742,851,364 |
2018 Global Requirements - Programmed Activities
*Please note that the totals presented in tables and charts on this website may not add up due to rounding. All figures are displayed in USD; figures on the map are displayed in millions.
Latest reports on financial contributions to UNHCR are available below :
- All contributions in 2017 (final information, as presented in the 2017 Global Report): all voluntary contributions coming from all sources, including from governments and the private sector in countries supporting UNHCR's work, and from inter-governmental and pooled funding mechanisms.
- Comprehensive donor ranking 2017 (final information): voluntary contributions to UNHCR in 2017, sorted by size.
The results of the Pledging Conference for UNHCR's 2018 programmes are available here. To review historical trends of financial pledges made at the annual Pledging Conferences, click here.
Further illustrating the importance of unrestricted funding, UNHCR’s report on the use of unearmarked funding in 2017 is available here.
Contribution by Region
Information on contributions by region and by year
*Contribution data is refreshed on a monthly basis
Earmarking Trend
Information about the level of earmarking of contributions over the last five years
*Contribution data is refreshed on a monthly basis
Donor Profiles
The above chart shows the respective share of contributions by UNHCR’s main donors over the last five years. Detailed information on donors’ contributions is available in this section, including individual donor profiles and rankings of governmental donors.