General NGO Guidelines

The State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM; also referred to in these guidelines as the “Bureau”) has primary responsibility within the U.S. government for formulating policies on population, refugees, and migration, and for administering U.S. refugee assistance and admissions programs. PRM’s mission is to provide protection, ease suffering, and resolve the plight of persecuted and uprooted people around the world on behalf of the American people by providing life-sustaining assistance, working through multilateral systems to build global partnerships, promoting best practices in humanitarian response, and ensuring that humanitarian principles are thoroughly integrated into U.S. foreign and national security policy.

PRM’s primary activities support the efforts of the key multilateral humanitarian organizations responsible for refugees, conflict victims, stateless persons, and vulnerable migrants. PRM funds non-governmental organization (NGO) projects that are coordinated with the multilateral system and fill critical gaps in humanitarian assistance and protection programs. PRM does not provide overseas assistance through for-profit organizations.