Overseas Refugee Assistance Programs for Strategic Global Priorities

Bureau support under this program includes mostly contributions to the headquarters and global program costs of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the headquarters budget of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and to a smaller extent, the multiregional activities of other international and non-governmental organizations assisting refugees and other conflict victims. A particular emphasis of this support is to promote initiatives in areas that are cross-cutting, Bureau priorities, such as protecting refugee women and refugee children, preventing and responding to gender-based violence (including sexual exploitation), addressing statelessness, enhancing refugee protection, improving refugee health, including HIV/AIDS prevention and response, and advancing the use of standards and evidence in humanitarian assistance.