Ockenden International Prizes recognise and reward proven refugee and displaced people projects across the Globe.The International Prize was launched in 2012 as was a three-year refugee studies fellowship at Oxford University.This important prize for a project that aids refugees or displaced people – as well as the Oxford University Fellowship – honours Ockenden International’s founder Joyce Pearce and the principles on which Ockenden was established.
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For more than 60 years, Ockenden International has helped refugees and displaced people across the globe.

The International Prize was launched in 2012 as was a three-year refugee studies fellowship at Oxford University.

This important prize for a project that aids refugees or displaced people – as well as the Oxford University Fellowship – honours Ockenden International’s founder Joyce Pearce and the principles on which Ockenden was established.

The inaugural $US75,000 prize was awarded in February 2013. In 2014, the second annual prize of $US75,000 was awarded to The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Zimbabwe in February 2014. The third annual prize, raised to $US100,000, was presented to The Community Association for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights (ACPDH), Burundi, and their nominator, Disability and Development Partners (DDP) UK, at a prestigious ceremony and reception at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, in February 2015.