The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) 2023 Nansen Refugee Award
Apply now for The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) 2023 Nansen Refugee Award on Trueport your best worldwide scholarship website on the internet. Each year, the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award identifies several individuals, groups, or organizations that have demonstrated exceptional dedication in protecting and assisting refugees, internally displaced or stateless people.
The UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award is awarded every year to an individual, group, or organization that has demonstrated outstanding dedication and service to people forced to flee their homes or stateless people. Since 2017, we have also recognized several regional winners each year.
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Nominations
- Anyone may nominate a candidate for the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award. If you nominated someone in the past but they did not win, you may nominate them again.
- The strongest nominations will provide a detailed account of the candidate’s work and results for displaced or stateless people and three solid references to vouch for their character and impact. References should not all come from the same organization or group.
Selection criteria
- Candidates may be individuals, groups, or organizations.
- Their work must directly and positively impact the lives of forcibly displaced or stateless people.
- Their work relates to a major displacement situation or issue. This year we especially encourage nominations related to inclusion or solutions, which will be central themes of the Global Forum on Refugees in December 2023, but this is optional.
- They devote substantial time and effort to support forcibly displaced or stateless people, going above and beyond the call of duty and outside their expected role.
- They have the capacity to successfully implement a suitable project with the prize money (US$100,000 for the global laureate, US$25,000 for regional winners).
- They have three strong references.
Selection process
The global laureate and regional winners are chosen by an independent Selection Committee and will be announced in late 2023. The selection process remains strictly confidential, and no information regarding the status of your nomination will be released.
Application Deadline: 17 March 2023.
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) 2023 Nansen Refugee Award
