UNHCR Refugee-led Innovation Fund 2025

The UNHCR Refugee-led Innovation Fund provides holistic support to organizations led by forcibly displaced and stateless people, combining financial resources, mentoring, and other expertise to design and deliver interventions with lasting positive community impact. Selected organizations can receive funding (up to 45,000 USD), programme and project management support, technical expertise, peer networking, and learning opportunities, with additional support as needed. Applications are open to organizations led by people with lived displacement or statelessness, with a team-based structure; individual applicants are not eligible.

Financial funding up to 45,000 USD; programme and project management support; technical support and expertise; peer-to-peer networking; learning and documentation of outcomes; potential additional organizational and media support.

Organizations led by people with lived experience of forced displacement or statelessness, operating as a team-based organization; registered or unregistered organizations are eligible.

Submit a proposal via the online application form; the process includes four phases: longlisting, vetting, pitching, and final selection.