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A displaced Yemeni girl plays with a cat in a site hosting displaced people in Sana’a. © UNHCR/Reem Al Wajih
UNHCR will need your support to protect and assist a record number of people under its mandate in 2022, and to pursue solutions for situations of statelessness and forced displacement.
To fulfil its mandated responsibilities
UNHCR requires
to support an expected
PEOPLE OF CONCERN*
in
* These figures are based on the anticipated evolution of situations during the planning year, and take into account the current population size, the average population growth, expected movements, as well as changes in the status of people of concern to UNHCR. Planning figures subject to evolve.
2022 Global Planning Figures
2022 planning population figures
102.6 million people of concern*
* Planning figures subject to evolve.
2022 financial requirements
Global planning budgets 2021/2022
Global budget by Impact Area
Global Focus
Global Focus is UNHCR’s main operational reporting portal for donors and other key partners. The site has been newly updated and linked to UNHCR’s new COMPASS results-based management platform. It provides an overview of the protection risks that refugees and other populations of concern to UNHCR face across the world, as well as regularly updated information about the organization’s programmes, operations, financial requirements, funding levels and donor contributions. Please visit the Global Focus website to read more about UNHCR’s global activities and operations.
High Commissioner Filippo Grandi bumps fists with six-year-old Kervanis Prieto during a visit to a social integration centre in La Milagrosa, in Soledad municipality, Colombia. © UNHCR/Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo
Filippo Grandi
High Commissioner
“2022 will be shaped by the world’s response to three threats: conflict, COVID-19 and climate change.
“The longer we leave these problems, the bigger the consequences. And without urgent action, UNHCR anticipates the number of people under its mandate will continue to swell, forcing us to respond to new emergencies, as we did in Afghanistan, Ethiopia and dozens of other places in 2021.
“UNHCR aims to save and improve the lives of the people of concern, lessen the burden on States that do so much to host them, and solve their situations as soon as possible. All this work is made possible by you – by host communities and countries, by donors – to whom the world owes a great debt of gratitude. With this Global Appeal, I invite you to support UNHCR’s work in 2022.”
Read the whole of the High Commissioner’s foreword to the Global Appeal.
© Mursal Mohammadi
Letter from Mursal Mohammadi, a participant in UNHCR’s Journalist Mentorship Programme
“We have fled unimaginable circumstances – war, persecution, human rights abuses. But that doesn’t define us. I am not just a refugee. I am a scholar. I am a storyteller. I am a photographer. And much more.
“I want the children in my country – including every single girl – as well as refugees across the world to have a chance to experience the life-changing power of education the way I have. But like me, they might just need a little help.”
©Mursal Mohammadi
COMPASS: UNHCR’s new results-based framework
UNHCR has invested considerably in a set of reforms that will make it more agile and better equipped to meet the objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees and the Sustainable Development Goals. Central to this transformation is COMPASS, UNHCR’s new results-based management approach.
Gillian Triggs
Assistant High Commissioner for Protection
“In many countries, more than 50% of the people needing protection are children… More support is required to combat gender-based violence… Our presence on the ground, extensive partnerships at the local level and community-based approaches are what makes contributions to UNHCR impactful.”
Read the whole of the Assistant High Commissioner’s interview.
Impact Areas
In COMPASS, four “Impact Areas” cover the overarching areas where UNHCR’s strategy aims to improve the lives of people under its mandate.
UNHCR works hard in emergencies to provide displaced populations with safe and secure temporary shelter. But long-term, sustainable housing solutions are also essential to help people restart their lives. In Burkina Faso, $920 could provide a permanent shelter to a refugee family, and help provide an improved quality of life and sense of home.
Kelly T. Clements
Deputy High Commissioner
“I am convinced we are on the right track to strengthen work essential to deliver better protection and aid to the millions who depend on UNHCR for support. We are determined to succeed.”
Outcome and Enabling Areas
Outcome Areas
UNHCR’s plans and actions are tracked in COMPASS under 16 “Outcome Areas”. These describe the various ways in which UNHCR works to achieve the desired Impacts.
Enabling Areas
There is also work within UNHCR that enables the whole organization to function, captured under five “Enabling Areas”.
Di Baladna (Our Land), by Emtithal Mahmoud
Focus Areas
Some aspects of UNHCR’s strategy deserve a particular focus but have implications that cut across many different areas of work.
For forcibly displaced women and girls, an ordinary task like collecting water or going to the toilet can put them at risk of violence or abuse – and the pandemic has aggravated many of the factors that threaten their safety. $313 helps us support a survivor of gender-based violence in Iraq with psychosocial counselling to help them recover from their trauma and rebuild their lives.
Assistant High Commissioner for Operations Raouf Mazou hosts a focus group with IDPs in the Josina Machel neighbourhood of Pemba, Cabo Delgado province, northern Mozambique. © UNHCR/Martim Gray Pereira
Raouf Mazou
Assistant High Commissioner for Operations
“We are ready for a high level of unpredictability in 2022. We have strong preparedness and emergency response mechanisms, with colleagues on standby to be deployed and stockpiles available.”
Read the whole of the Assistant High Commissioner’s interview.
Regional Summaries
UNHCR’s operations are covered by seven regional headquarters.
$100 can provide one person with transportation to a local registration point to receive their Temporary Protection Status permit in Colombia.
Angelina Jolie
Special Envoy
“I am humbled to work for refugees and all displaced people. I often think of many of the families I have met, and am angered by how little is able to be done by the international community to help stabilize their situations and help them to return to a life they deserve. When I check in with them, it’s been all too often the case that their lives have become more – not less – challenging as time passes.”
Khaliq and his sister return to their family’s tent after fetching water in a settlement for internally displaced people in Afghanistan. © UNHCR/Edris Lutfi
THANK YOU!
To all hosting states and donors – governmental and private – UNHCR extends its most sincere thank you for your support in the year to come.
Khaliq and his sister return to their family’s tent after fetching water in a settlement for internally displaced people in Afghanistan. © UNHCR/Edris Lutfi
Learn more about how UNHCR’s work in 2022 will impact the lives of millions of refugees, asylum-seekers, returnees, internally displaced and stateless people by reading UNHCR’s Global Appeal 2022 or visiting the Global Focus website.