AVPN 2024: The UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency, has teamed up with Asian philanthropy network, AVPN, to explore innovative financial models to help strengthen support for forcibly displaced people in Asia and the Pacific.
The two organisations within the world of philanthropy and the humanitarian sector signed a memorandum of understanding at the AVPN Global Conference in April.
Christian Schaake, chief of UNHCR private sector partnerships in Asia said he wanted to ‘scale up’ work in the region via ‘innovative finance’, a means in which humanitarian organisations like the UNHCR receive support via nontraditional donor-based assistance.
The UNHCR said it aims to close its funding gap by ‘generating financing for humanitarian aims from capital markets, leveraging and supplementing the grants from governments, foundations, corporations and individuals that currently provide most resources for humanitarian response’.
‘AVPN is looking forward to actively engaging in the development of innovative financial mechanisms and creative approaches for financing projects that effectively contribute to the wellbeing of displaced communities across Asia-Pacific,’ said Moutushi Sengupta, Chief of Capital Mobilisation, AVPN.
AVPN will also provide support for the UNHCR’s research and data analysis and help ‘raise awareness of the plight of refugees and achieve the best results for these communities, and the environment, as possible,’ Sengupta added.
Some 108.4 million people were displaced by the end of 2022, according to the UNHCR’s 2023 Global Trends report.
In the Asia-Pacific region, conflict and persecution has forcibly displaced people and communities. Natural disasters and climate change have pushed many into neighbouring countries.
Shafi Musaddique is the news editor at Alliance Magazine
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