The cost of supporting refugees could reach over $50 billion this year, mostly as a result of the war in Ukraine.
That’s more than five times the cost of supporting refugees last year, and it has the potential to seriously impact other official development assistance budgets.
Under rules agreed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, when donors support refugees on their own soil, they are allowed to count some of the costs from the first year as ODA. This funding is known as in-donor refugee costs.