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).

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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.

Norway provides resettlement and financial support to life-saving evacuations from Libya

May 11, 2020

Hundreds of vulnerable refugees have been evacuated from risk and abuse in Libya and taken to safety in Rwanda via UNHCR’s Emergency Transit Mechanism. This is possible thanks to funding and resettlement commitments from Norway.  

Norway’s support to UNHCR provides protection and education to Syrian refugees

Jan 14, 2019

The situations in Syria and Iraq are among the world’s most underfunded crises. Support and unearmarked funding from Norway enables UNHCR to help the most vulnerable refugees.

Norway’s funding to UNHCR prevents ‘lost generation’ in situations of crisis and conflict

Oct 29, 2018

Humanitarian crises have become more complex, longer-lasting, and affecting more people. Norway recently launched a new humanitarian strategy focusing on protection, the humanitarian-development nexus and commitment to providing effective, flexible and consistent funding.