Canada

In 2025, Canada was among UNHCR’s top donors and provided a robust and generous contribution, including unearmarked, softly earmarked, and multi-year funds. Canada’s contributions remain critical to the type of flexible response that enables UNHCR to direct resources to refugees and displaced people most in need, whether they are affected by a new crisis or in a protracted situation.  A champion in gender equality and female empowerment, Canada is a leader in supporting gender-responsive humanitarian aid programming that enables access to protection and education for women and girls. 

Beyond financial support, Canada is a key political and strategic ally for UNHCR’s protection, humanitarian assistance, and solutions work, notably in the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, where Canada continues to demonstrate great leadership.

This incudes Canada’s capacity-building support to strengthen asylum systems in the Americas, resettlement programming, and commitment to complementary pathways.

Canada assumed the role of Chair of the Comprehensive Regional Protection and Solutions Framework (MIRPS) Support Platform from July 2021 to September 2022 and continues to provide strategic and technical support as past chair in the Platform’s troika model of leadership. Canada also co-hosted the International Pledging Conferences in Solidarity with Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in March 2023 and June 2021. Canada is also involved in technical capacity building assistance with Mexico through the Regional Asylum Capacity Building Initiative (RACBI) and has a twinning project with Costa Rica, both reported under the Asylum Capacity Support Group (ACSG).

In 2022, Canada also led the Global Task Force on Refugee Labour Mobility as its inaugural chair, helping expand refugee labour pathways and share its experience with programs like the Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot.

This commitment is further reflected in over 40 pledges submitted at the Global Refugee Forum 2023, spanning resettlement and complementary pathways, asylum capacity building, refugee education, and humanitarian and development support to multiple displacement crises.