The UPS Foundation

About the partnership

Since: 2010

Locations: Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Bangladesh and elsewhere

Since 2010, the UPS Foundation partnership with UNHCR has changed the lives of refugees around the world. UPS offers its expertise and financial resources to:

• provide logistical training to help UNHCR’s partners improve their response and delivery of supplies during an emergency 
• create an ‘emergency fund’ that UNHCR can activate at any time to respond to a disaster or complex emergency, in order to provide for essential life-sustaining relief supplies
• be the lead stand-by partner for UNHCR’s global response efforts, providing life-saving assistance to stricken communities within hours. 
• provide loaned logistics experts to help enhance UNHCR supply chain division shipment tracking capabilities

Impact at a glance

• The multi-faceted partnership with UPS has enhanced UNHCR’s ability to provide effective transport, logistics, supply and emergency response solutions  
• UNHCR and UPS are therefore able to deliver efficient humanitarian support to refugees and displaced people across the globe