Following the withdrawal of most US humanitarian funding and funding decrease by other major donors, UNHCR, other UN agencies, and NGO actors are having to make difficult decisions about where and how to prioritize the remaining resources across refugee responses. For UNHCR, this involves making decisions on internal reprioritization and on their role as lead of the interagency refugee coordination system.
From the perspective of NRC and IMPACT Initiatives, it is essential that there be a common set of criteria and a collective approach to reprioritization in refugee responses to ensure we are reaching the refugees whose needs are most acute with the resources that remain. This document aims to support discussions on this issue and offers some initial joint reflections from NRC and IMPACT Initiatives, including a series of questions we believe would be useful to understand from UNHCR.
