UNHCR’s Humanitarian-Development Cooperation: Progress, Challenges, and the Road Ahead
In an era marked by increasing global displacement, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ Evaluation office (UNHCR) has undertaken an evaluation of its engagement in humanitarian-development cooperation. Building upon the findings of the original...Beyond Basics: Elevating Refugee Education to New Heights on International Day of Education 2024
Enhakole fled Rwanda in 2010 with her mother and siblings to seek refuge in Uganda. Born with a visual impairment, she received support from Educate a Child and UNHCR and completed her primary education. She now attends secondary school with the dream of becoming a...
The Power of Now: Nowcasting Refugee Population Figures at UNHCR
UNHCR developed a Nowcasting dashboard to provide an estimate of actual forced displacement figures when official figures are unavailable with an accuracy of close to 99% compared to officially published figures at the global level. These nowcasts are incredibly important in the humanitarian sector as they inform UNHCR and its partners of the rapidly changing situation in almost real-time and enable more efficient decision-making such as emergency resource allocation.
Evaluation of UNHCR’s Support for Strengthening National Asylum Systems
In 2019, there were over 26 million refugees worldwide. Yet, in just over one third of countries, there was no national asylum system. UNHCR has been working with, and building the capacity of, national systems since the 1990s across a large number of the countries in...
Las personas desplazadas en México se enfrentan a una mayor inseguridad debido a la COVID-19, siendo la población hondureña y salvadoreña la que corre mayor riesgo
Por Giovanni Lepri, Representante de ACNUR en México, Theresa Beltramo, Economista Sénior, ACNUR, y Craig Loschmann, Economista, ACNUR Américas Un niño refugiado hondureño, de once años de edad, sigue una lección escolar con su teléfono celular en su casa en el norte...