The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organisation dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect people forced to flee their homes because of conflict and prosecution. The organisation provides them with life-saving assistance including shelter, food, as well as water and also helps safeguard their fundamental human rights.

In more than six decades, the agency has helped tens of millions of people restart their lives. Today, UNHCR is in more than 135 countries continues to help about 82.4 million persons. To help and protect some of the world’s most vulnerable people in so many places and types of environment, UNHCR must purchase goods and services worldwide. For further information on UNHCR, its mandate and operations, please see http://www.unhcr.org.

Goods purchased in the framework of this tender will be used to assist vulnerable population in need of humanitarian assistance in Ukraine.