Because refugee needs are enormous and resources are limited, the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR cannot do its job alone. It relies on a wide range of partnerships to protect refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless, the particularly vulnerable among them and to promote durable solutions to their plight. 

UNHCR partners range from governments to non-governmental organizations, foundations and corporations, other United Nations and major International Organizations and the European Union. UNHCR also cooperates with a number of other civil society actors, such universities, advocacy groups, the academia and the refugee communities themselves. 

Cooperation ranges from mutual information sharing and debates to coordination of activities or joint projects in the field of migration, asylum and statelessness.

The ultimate purpose of these partnerships is to maximize the efforts and resources dedicated to the assistance and protection of refugees and other uprooted people.