Application Deadline: 7 April, 2025
Applications are now open for the 2025 United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Nansen Refugee Award. Each year, the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award recognizes several individuals, groups or organizations that have taken extraordinary action to protect and assist refugees, internally displaced or stateless people.
Selection criteria
- Candidates may be individuals, groups or organizations.
- Their work must have a direct and positive impact on the lives of forcibly displaced or stateless people.
- Their work relates to a major displacement situation or issue.
- This year we especially encourage nominations that relate to climate, sports, sustainable solutions and inclusions but we are open to other themes.
- 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.
Award
- The 2025 global laureate will receive a commemorative medal and a monetary prize of US$100,000 to be reinvested in the humanitarian initiatives for which they are being recognized. Several regional winners will receive a smaller monetary prize to further their humanitarian work.
Selection process
- The global laureate and regional winners are chosen by an independent Selection Committee.
- The selection process remains strictly confidential, and no information regarding the status of your nomination will be released.
- The 2025 global laureate and regional winners will be announced in late 2025.
For More Information:
Visit the Official Webpage of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Nansen Refugee Award