UNHCR Nepal

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organisation dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people. For specific details on the populations supported in this operation, please use the document link "Populations".

This activity includes budget and incoming transactions for the COVID-19 response by the UNHCR operation in Nepal. For more details, please follow the link to the COVID-19 SITUATION page which can be found in “Documents”.

Nepal has a longstanding tradition of providing asylum. The country hosts around 20,000 refugees, including those from Tibet, Bhutan and other states. The main arrivals of refugees took place in 1959 with an influx from Tibet, and again in 1990/1991 with an influx from Bhutan. UNHCR supports the Government of Nepal in various programmes to protect and assist refugees in the country. This includes advocacy for legal identity documentation, livelihood programmes to achieve self-reliance, and the inclusion of refugees into policies, public services and the Government of Nepal’s Emergency, Development and SDG planning. UNHCR works in close partnership with the Ministry of Home Affairs, other key ministries, provincial and local authorities, community-based organizations, development partners, donors, the private sector, NGOs, civil societies, and most importantly, the refugees themselves. Between 2007 to 2016, UNHCR helped resettle more than 113,500 Bhutanese refugees to eight different countries in one of the largest group resettlement programmes globally. This activity shows details of the UNHCR operation in Nepal for 2025 and future years including the budget, funding, expenditure and results.

This activity shows details of the UNHCR operation in Nepal for 2021 including the budget, funding, expenditure and results.

This activity shows details of the UNHCR operation in Nepal for 2018 including the budget, funding, expenditure and results.