Global Refugee Forum Progress Review 2025
Global Refugee Forum Progress Review 2025
Delegates listen to speakers during a plenary session at the High-Level Officials Meeting taking place virtually in the International Conference Centre in Geneva on 14 and 15 December 2021. The meeting was convened by UNHCR as a follow-up to the 2019 Global Refugee Forum.
Reflecting on progress and charting the future
The Global Refugee Forum Progress Review 2025, the second high-level officials meeting, took place from 15-17 December 2025, at the International Conference Centre (CICG) in Geneva, Switzerland, following on from the Global Refugee Forum 2023.
Priorities for the Global Refugee Forum Progress Review 2025 included:
- Expanding support for refugees and the countries who receive them;
- Advancing implementation of pledges made as part of the Global Refugee Forums including through the multi-stakeholder pledge framework;
- Directing efforts to the areas in need of further support.
The roadmap, FAQs, and programme are available online. An outcome document will be published in the coming weeks.
Outcomes of the GRF Progress Review 2025
Outcomes of the GRF Progress Review 2025
The Progress Review highlighted that even under severe political and financial strain, multilateral cooperation remains relevant and capable of delivering results.
Recommendations and follow-up actions on the road to the GRF 2027
1
Reinforce access to asylum and protection as foundational to responsibility-sharing
2
Bring renewed focus on refugee inclusion to help foster self-reliance and enable solution
3
Optimize the GRF pledge framework as a high-impact delivery mechanism for protection, inclusion, and solutions
4
Invest in multi-stakeholder engagement, local leadership, and partnership brokerage
5
Use the GCR as a practical anchor for coherent global, regional, and national action in line with the UN80 and Humanitarian Reset
6
Enhance meaningful refugee participation towards greater policy influence across all stages of the GCR
7
Strengthen data, evidence, and digital inclusion for a more impactful GCR implementation and refugee policy informed by the Indicator Report
8
Secure predictable, multi-year financing aligned with national leadership
Get involved
Stakeholders are encouraged to keep making new pledges – in particular those in support of the multi-stakeholder pledges – and submitting progress updates on existing pledges via the online forms.
Additionally good practices can also be shared at any time, contributing to the collection of nearly 600 published so far.
Finally, in light of the success of the Virtual Spaces created on this Platform for the HLOM 2021 and the High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges in 2022, a new Digital Space was launched, showcasing a collection of work from GCR stakeholders towards achieving the objectives of the Compact. Find out more and share your content.
