Governments
Governments
UNHCR has long-standing partnerships with donor governments, which provide crucial funding on an annual basis. It is through these partnerships that UNHCR can protect, save lives and build better futures for the tens of millions of refugees, internally displaced and stateless people around the world.
For more information about how UNHCR is funded and details on our latest publications, as well as in-depth information on budgets, contributions and expenditure, visit the Global Focus website, UNHCR’s main operational reporting portal for donors and other key partners.
Voluntary contributions from government partners and the European Union (EU) are vital to our work, accounting for almost 90% of our annual income.
As of 31 December 2021, our three largest partners were the United States of America, the European Union and Germany, while our largest government partners of unearmarked funds were Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, Netherlands and Denmark. Unearmarked funding provides the backbone of UNHCR’s activities on a global scale, allowing us to respond to emergencies as they happen and enabling us to stay and deliver long after the headlines have faded.
![Poland. First Christmas in exile for refugees from Ukraine](/us/sites/en-us/files/RF1261201_20.jpg "UNHCR protection monitor Svetlana Lokian is conducting an interview with Valentina (83). Valentina came to Poland from Kramatorsk on 29 March 2022 with her daughter Oksana and granddaughter Zhanna. "The city was being attacked all the time," Valentina recalls. Now they are all living at a collective centre in Krakow with 400 other refugees from Ukraine. Valentina says she likes it in Poland, but her New Year wish is that they all return to Ukraine and her grandson survives the war.; Poland has been since the onset of the war one of the main destinations of refugees from Ukraine and is now bracing for the possibility of more people fleeing this winter. More and more refugees from Ukraine rely heavily on humanitarian assistance and cannot find accommodation other that the one in collective centres.")
