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Programme overview

GRF Progress Review 2025

Programme overview

View the official programme overview for the Global Refugee Forum Progress Review 2025.
Switzerland. Afternoon plenary on day two at the Global Refugee Forum 2023
© UNHCR/Will Swanson

The GRF Progress Review 2025 Official Programme includes the plenary session, parallel events and linked events taking place from 15 to 17 December in Geneva, Switzerland.

ℹ️ Please note that this schedule is preliminary and may be subject to changes.

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Monday, 15 December
Main eventsParallel events
10:00 - 12:00

Opening session

Guiding refugee responses in a changing world

12:00 - 13:00Commencement of the plenary discussion
13:00 - 15:00

Plenary break

13:00 - 13:30: Speakers’ Corner
13:30-15:00: Side events
  • Impact and benefits of resettlement: Perspectives from host and resettlement countries
  • From commitment to impact: Advancing gender equality and ending violence against refugee women and girls

13:30-15:00: Strategic dialogues

  • Rethinking refugee finance: Innovation in an era of mounting pressures

Please see the detailed daily outline for exact timings, room locations and speakers.

15:00 - 18:00
Plenary session
  • Plenary spotlight session: Scaling refugee employment: policy, partnerships and labour mobility
  • Plenary pledge announcements
  • Plenary discussion
16:30-18:00: Side events
  • Delivering better: How the GCR contributes to UN80 and the humanitarian reset through efficiency and collective impact for refugee inclusion – The UN Common Pledge 2.0
  • Accelerating HDP nexus approaches in forced displacement settings

16:30-18:00: Strategic dialogues

  • Sustaining momentum: Leveraging insights from the GCR Indicator Report and the role of data

Please see the detailed daily outline for exact timings, room locations and speakers.

View the detailed outline for Monday 15 December for information on room locations, languages available and speakers.

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Tuesday, 16 December
Main eventsParallel events
09:00 - 11:30

Plenary session

  • Plenary discussion

9:30-11:00: Side events

  • Safe pathways for refugees: Unlocking international mobility for a sustainable future
  • From pledges to progress: Cities turning GCR commitments into local impact

9:30-11:00: Strategic dialogues

  • GCR mechanisms: Support platforms

Please see the detailed daily outline for exact timings, room locations and speakers.

11:30 - 13:00
Plenary session, continued
  • Pledge announcements
  • Spotlight session: Refugee inclusion in national health, social protection and digital identity systems: bridging gaps, strengthening systems, fostering well-being

11:30-13:00: Side events

  • Route-based approach in action under the GCR
  • Connected and protected: safeguarding digital protection in the AI era

Please see the detailed daily outline for exact timings, room locations and speakers.

13:00 - 15:00

Plenary break

13:00 - 13:30: Speakers’ Corner
13:30-15:00: Side events
  • Human settlements as foundations for inclusive and resilient futures
  • Implementation of the GCR in Latin America and the Caribbean

13:30-15:00: Strategic dialogues

  • Rohingya multi-stakeholder pledge event

Please see the detailed daily outline for exact timings, room locations and speakers.

15:00 - 18:00
Plenary session, continued
  • Pledge announcements
  • Plenary discussion
  • Spotlight session: Making returns sustainable and supporting reintegration in today's world
15:15-16:45: Side events
  • Meaningful refugee participation in practice: Scaling impact and shaping the path forward
  • Multi-year financing for refugee education: A shared responsibility to secure sustainable futures

15:15-16:45: Strategic dialogues

  • Turning dialogue into action: Lomé Dialogue sub-regional strategy for protection and solutions

Please see the detailed daily outline for exact timings, room locations and speakers.

19:30 onwardNansen Refugee Award ceremony

View the detailed outline for Tuesday 16 December for information on room locations, languages available and speakers.

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Wednesday, 17 December
Main eventsParallel events
09:00 - 11:30

Plenary session, continued

  • Plenary discussion
  • Pledge announcements

9:30-11:00: Side events

  • Syria high-level event
  • Legal identity for all: Addressing statelessness to achieve SDGs

Please see the detailed daily outline for exact timings, room locations and speakers.

11:30 - 13:00
Plenary session, continued
  • Plenary discussion

11:30-13:00: Side events

  • Taking stock of development action in response to the Sudan regional crisis
  • Shaping the future: making localization work

11:30-13:00: Strategic dialogues

  • GCR mechanisms: Strengthening the pledge framework

Please see the detailed daily outline for exact timings, room locations and speakers.

13:00 - 15:00

13:30-14:45: Spotlight session

Strong and sustainable asylum systems: addressing challenges, enabling protection and solutions

13:00 - 13:30: Speakers’ Corner

Please see the detailed daily outline for exact timings, room locations and speakers.

15:00 - 16:30
Plenary session, continued
  • Plenary discussion

15:00-16:00: Side events

  • National leadership at the centre of operationalising the GCR through sustainable responses

Please see the detailed daily outline for exact timings, room locations and speakers.

16:30 - 18:00Closing of the GRF Progress Review

View the detailed outline for Wednesday 17 December for information on room locations, languages available and speakers.

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