Multi-stakeholder Pledge: UN Common Pledge 2.0
Key outcomes
Hosting countries are supported by a coherent, whole of UN effort to:
- shift away from unsustainable humanitarian approaches;
- include refugees in national plans, datasets, budgets and service delivery systems; and
- give refugees access to decent work.
As a result need, risk and vulnerabilities are reduced over multiple years and refugees are able to become net contributors to society and the economy.
Background
Many host countries made bold, inclusive policy pledges in 2019 which remain in progress pending greater technical, programmatic, and financial support from the international community.
The UN common pledge 2.0 builds on the gains already made under the 2019 UN common pledge. It will leverage the suite of diverse and complementary strengths of a new generation of UN Country teams, each of which make specific, measurable, costed commitments to support government to realize the vision of self-reliance set out in the Global Compact on Refugees.
Pledge description
The pledge consists of an overarching commitment, by the whole UN, to a) include refugees in all UN plans, b) promote refugees’ inclusion in national plans, datasets, budgets and systems and ensure their access to decent work, c) advocate for international responsibility-sharing in support of refugee-hosting countries and d) advance meaningful refugee participation in UN planning processes and advocate for their meaningful participation in all plans that concern them. This is underpinned by specific, measurable, costed commitments from 50 UN Country Teams, generated through consultation with key stakeholders in each country; and specific, measurable commitments from 20 global level UN entities which support country level objectives.
This Resident Coordinator led, coherent and coordinated One UN effort under the pledge will secure sustainable solutions for some of the most marginalized men, women, girls, boys and youth – making the pledge a significant and strategic contribution in the final push to Leave No One Behind. The pledge aims to make improvements to the lives of 50 million refugees, stateless and other displaced people and the communities that host them, of which 19.6 million are refugees.
Leadership
- UNHCR
- UNDCO
- OCHA supported by an expert group of refugees
Participating UN Country Teams
- Afghanistan
- Angola
- Argentina
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Chile
- Colombia
- Congo
- Costa Rica
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Georgia
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Iran
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lesotho
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Moldova
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Niger
- North Macedonia
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Panama
- Peru
- South Africa
- Thailand
- Türkiye
- Uganda
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Venezuela
- Zambia
UN entities
- ECLAC
- FAO
- ILO
- IFAD
- IOM
- ITC
- ITU
- OCHA
- OHCHR
- PBF
- UNEP
- UPEACE
- UNAIDS
- UNCDF
- UNCTAD
- UNDESA
- UNDGC
- UNDP
- UNDSS
- UNECA
- UNESCO
- UNFPA
- UN Habitat
- UNICEF
- UNIDO
- UNMAS
- UNODC
- UNOPS
- UNRWA
- UNV
- UN Women
- WFP
- WHO
Contact details
Charline Blin [email protected]
Calendar
- Every quarter 2024 and 2025 – Regular meeting with Regional Bureaux
- Q3-Q4 2024 – Agree on stocktaking report design with co-leads
- Q2 2024 and 2025 – RC Webinar
- Q3 2024 and 2025 – Technical level webinar for UNCTs
- Q2-Q4 2025 – Stocktaking report
- Q3 2025 – Stocktaking event on meaningful refugee participation (TBC)
- Q4 2025 – Webinar with all signatories to the UN common pledge to discuss stocktaking report ahead of HLOM
- December 2025 – High-Level Officials Meeting