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City-to-city cooperation between Switzerland and Lebanon

The city-to-city partnership between Zurich, Switzerland, and Tyre, Lebanon, has resulted in bike-sharing stations for the use of...

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Improving futures through education

Countries provide safe and regulated avenues for refugees to study in a third country.

Yvonne Ndaga, Endam Home of Hope, of Nigeria, winner of a 2022 NGO Innovation Award, receiving her award from UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner, Kelly Clements

“Helping people is temporary; empowering people is permanent.”

The journey of Yvonne Ndaga Endam, 2022 UNHCR Innovation Award Winner

The Jordan River Foundation helps bring job opportunities to refugees

Ortense serving a customer at her market stall

The Lisungi Experience

For refugees, their host communities, and the indigenous population

Three refugee women in a garden, telling their stories of teenage pregnancy through contemporary dance

Cities on the frontline of the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees

Pledge updates

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Employment, livelihoods & entrepreneurship

Open Doors: Creating Work Opportunities for All

The Open Doors Initiative provides employment opportunities to refugees, asylum seekers, young people, and people with a disability.

29 July 2022

Employment, livelihoods & entrepreneurship

The Jordan River Foundation helps bring job opportunities to refugees

25 July 2022

Former refugee Augustine returned to Côte d’Ivoire in 2016. As a physically disabled person and a widow with four children, she has received UNHCR’s support to build a house and enough money to start a small business.

The Poverty Alleviation Coalition

15 October 2021

Pledges & Contributions

Pledge fulfilled: USD32.5 million raised to lend to refugees and their host communities

07 October 2021

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Screenshot from one of the online sessions at the forum on complementary pathways

A channel for protection: 1st International Forum on Complementary Pathways

22 December 2022

Complementary pathways for admission to third countries

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Our favourite trees are fruit trees: Community forestry in Rwanda

14 December 2022

Renewable energy & natural resource management

Gabriela, a Venezuelan entrepreneur in Ecuador, who has set up a bakery - standing in her work uniform, smiling at the camera

Measuring the GCR in preparation for 2023

13 December 2022

Data & research

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8 ways displaced and stateless persons can actively engage in the next Global Refugee Forum

22 November 2022

Refugees, host communities & diaspora

A group of young women on bikes

City-to-city cooperation between Switzerland and Lebanon

12 October 2022

Cities & urban areas

A man wearing a face masks sits at a computer in a library

Improving futures through education

03 October 2022

Education

Yvonne Ndaga, Endam Home of Hope, of Nigeria, winner of a 2022 NGO Innovation Award, receiving her award from UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner, Kelly Clements

“Helping people is temporary; empowering people is permanent.”

04 August 2022

Employment, livelihoods & entrepreneurship

Jacqueline sitting at a desk and looking into the camera

Open Doors: Creating Work Opportunities for All

29 July 2022

Employment, livelihoods & entrepreneurship

The Jordan River Foundation helps bring job opportunities to refugees

25 July 2022

Employment, livelihoods & entrepreneurship

Ortense serving a customer at her market stall

The Lisungi Experience

15 July 2022

Martin Chungong speaking at the 143rd IPU Assembly November 2021 c IPU

Refugees at home: Dispatch from the Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

30 June 2022

NGO consultation 2022 1

The Role of NGOs in the Global Compact on Refugees: Preparing for the 2023 Global Refugee Forum

21 June 2022

Civil society organizations