Initiatives
Initiatives
Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
As a global network of operational agencies, academic institutions, policymakers, donors and practitioners, the Alliance facilitates inter-agency technical collaboration on child protection in all humanitarian contexts.
Asylum Capacity Support Group (ACSG)
A mechanism for increasing the consistency and availability of support to strengthen the capacity of national asylum/Refugee Status Determination (RSD) systems.
Clean Energy Challenge
The Clean Energy Challenge is an initiative through which collective action is aimed at ensuring that all settlements of forcibly displaced people and nearby host communities will have access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy by 2030.
CRISP
The Sustainable Resettlement and Complementary Pathways Initiative (CRISP) is a UNHCR-IOM led, multi-stakeholder initiative and the crucial tool for the implementation of the actions identified under the Strategy on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways.
Education Co-Sponsorship Alliance
The Alliance plays an important role in mobilizing and tracking the progress of concrete pledges towards inclusive and quality education at all levels for refugees and host community children and youth.
Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN)
Linking academia, policy makers, and practitioners in the field of forced displacement and statelessness. A dedicated space for academics, researchers, institutions, teachers, and students who are working on research that supports the Global Compact on Refugees.
Global Alliance to End Statelessness Taskforce
The Taskforce will plan and launch a broad-based alliance to build on global progress made, and to sustain a continuous effort towards ending statelessness beyond the end of the #IBelong Campaign in 2024.
Global Family Reunification Network
The Network draws together key stakeholders, experts, and academics in the area of family reunification, with the collective aim of promoting and facilitating greater access to family reunification procedures for people who are forcibly displaced and their families.
Global Taskforce on Third Country Education Pathways
Working with States, the international higher education community, and other stakeholders to share responsibility with countries that are hosting large populations of forcibly displaced people, by providing safe, sustainable pathways to third countries through education.
#IBelong Campaign
The campaign aims to end statelessness within ten years, by identifying and protecting stateless people, resolving existing situations of statelessness and preventing the emergence of new cases.
Initiative for Child Rights in the Global Compacts
Working to ensure that the rights of children who are on the move or impacted by migration are respected and fulfilled, by supporting the child-sensitive approach in the guiding principles of the compacts and commitments relating to child protection.
Joint Legal Community Pledge
Over 80 legal and refugee rights actors have united in order to help ensure that forcibly displaced people around the world have access to equal justice.
MADE51
Bringing refugee-made products to a global market, MADE51 provides a way for refugees to preserve their culture and enhance their financial independence.
The Mayors Mechanism
The Mechanism enables local authorities and regional governments to make commitments to implement the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration, as well as providing them with opportunities to interact with States, civil society, and the private sector, and fostering peer-to-peer learning and exchange.
Multi-Religious Council of Leaders
The multi-religious council of leaders have committed to mobilising action for refugees, asylum seekers, stateless, and internally displaced people, addressing root causes of forced displacement, and facilitating the meaningful participation of forcibly displaced women and girls in peacebuilding processes.
NGO Reference Group for the Global Refugee Forum (GRF)
Comprised of representatives from a diverse range of global and regional NGO networks, the group serves as a consultative mechanism for the preparations of the next Global Refugee Forum in 2023.
Poverty Alleviation Coalition
A partnership of both humanitarian and development organisations working to alleviate poverty for 500,000 refugee and host community households by 2025.
PROSPECTS Partnership
The partnership aims to develop and implement evidence-based solutions tailored to each local context of displacement, while also testing and learning from innovative, operational solutions to the problems faced by host communities and forcibly displaced people.
Refugee Advisory Group to the ATCR
The group, which includes representatives from national, regional, and global refugee-led networks with lived refugee experience, has an advisory role in the planning cycle of the Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement (ATCR).
Refugee Connected Education Challenge
Working with governments, civil and private sector actors to close the digital divide faced by displaced learners.
Refugee Environmental Protection Fund
The Fund aims to plant tens of millions more trees and enable hundreds of thousands of refugees and their hosts to access clean cooking solutions over the next decade.
Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative (RSRI)
The RSRI is a multi-stakeholder collaboration that promotes opportunities for refugees around the world to become self-reliant and achieve a better quality of life, while simultaneously advocating for the full enjoyment of their rights.
Sport for Refugees Coalition
From grassroots clubs to international sporting federations, working together to build a better world for refugees through sport, by increasing access and participation at all levels for displaced people.
Statelessness Group of Friends
The group, made up of around 30 permanent missions, supports the achievement of the objectives of the #IBelong Campaign through enhanced diplomatic engagement, peer-to-peer learning, and financial support.
Email Monika Sandvik, Senior Statelessness Coordinator, to find out more.
Strategy on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways
UNHCR and partners have created an ambitious blueprint for the further development of third-country solutions.
Support Platforms
Flexible regional arrangements for the provision of situation-specific support from the international community to ensure comprehensive responses to specific refugee situations.
UN Common Pledge
A pledge made by the UN Secretary-General, and another made by the UN’s Emergency Relief Coordinator, committed UN entities to consider refugees in their own analyses and plans, and to advocate with refugee hosting governments to facilitate the inclusion of refugees in national systems.
Read the Stocktaking report and Roadmap.
UN agencies that have not been engaged in the common pledge are encouraged to reach out to UNHCR
UNHCR-UNICEF Blueprint for Joint Action
The partnership aims to secure the inclusion of refugee children and their families in national systems and services focused on three priority areas: education, WASH, and child protection.