Sweden

Sweden is UNHCR’s largest provider of multi-year unearmarked funding – allowing UNHCR to meet the most urgent needs anywhere in the world, whether it is for new crises or responding to forgotten and underfunded emergencies.

Unearmarked funding which arrives early in the calendar year allows UNHCR operations and global programmes to kickstart emergency response as crises arise and support underfunded and unpredicted needs. Sweden’s flexibility, predictability and timeliness of support has been UNHCR’s bedrock for responding to these needs. More time to implement activities, together with the ability to reallocate funding in response to shifts in programme focus or based on learning within programmes, means UNHCR interventions can respond, and respond better, to actual needs as they evolve.

Sweden and UNHCR have a longstanding partnership, with Sweden being one of the first signatories of the 1951 Refugee Convention and a member of our Executive Committee since 1958.

The partnership is focused on promoting and safeguarding the rights of forcibly displaced communities, including the most vulnerable, in a sustainable manner and operationalizing the humanitarian-development-peace nexus.