Norway as a Donor

UNHCR works to ensure that everyone has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled conflict, violence, or persecution at home.

Norway is a generous and reliable donor to UNHCR and has provided key support to our efforts in protecting and providing education to refugee youth and children. Norway has also been strongly involved with Education Cannot Wait, which works to provide access to education for refugee children. Furthermore, Norway’s unearmarked funding has allowed UNHCR to react fast in emergencies as well as protect vulnerable refugee women, girls, boys, and men from and gender-based violence (GBV).

For more detailed information on Norway, visit our donor page.

Norwegian contributions to UNHCR

Norway is one of UNHCR’s most important strategic partners and a generous donor. In 2023, Norway was UNHCR’s seventh biggest government donor with more than USD 129 million, and third biggest donor per capita. USD 63 million of Norway’s 2023 contribution to UNHCR was unearmarked.

Facts about Norway as a donor:

At the 2023 Global Refugee Forum, Norway pledged USD 1.7 million to UNHCR’s resettlement efforts for 2023 and 2024.
Norway also supports UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Awardand contributes annually with a monetary prize to the Nansen Refugee Award winner.
In 2023, Norway provided contributions to UNHCR’s response to the Syria situation, Ukraine situation, Sudan situation, Afghanistan situation and Myanmar situation.
Norway is a strong supporter of education for displaced children and refugees.

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Support from Norway enables our humanitarian colleagues to assist displaced people worldwide.

2022 in Review: Norway as a Donor

Protecting internally displaced people worldwide with support from Norway

Meet Halfdan from Norway

Support from Norway enables our humanitarian colleagues to assist displaced people worldwide.

UNHCR is grateful to the Government of Norway for supporting refugees from Ukraine in Moldova

Aug 6, 2024

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes a contribution of NOK 30 million ($2.7 million) from Norway to support refugees from Ukraine in Moldova. This is the second-largest contribution to UNHCR in Moldova over the past two years.

Unearmarked funding makes a difference in the lives of people living amidst neglected humanitarian crises

Jan 15, 2024

In 2023, UNHCR has been challenged by financial constraints despite ever-growing humanitarian need and forced to do more with less. Unearmarked contributions, such as those from Norway and Sweden, fund UNHCR’s vital operations in forgotten crises and enable UNHCR to plan and implement effective and sustainable humanitarian responses.

Stories from the Field: “I believe education can make a change.”

Dec 12, 2023

Why did you choose to join UNHCR? “I believe education can make a change. Different countries that have invested into education have experienced tremendous results – the Scandinavian system of education is something we should be proud of, and that’s what we are trying...