UNHCR Belarus works with the Belarus Government as its main partner providing targeted assistance and training in the areas that demonstrate a lack of capacity and are indispensable parts of the functioning national asylum system. The major Government counterparts include: the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Committee of the Border Troops, the Ministry of Justice, and Public Prosecutors' Office.

In recent years, practical cooperation has been enhanced with the regional executive authorities especially in the sphere of integration of recognized refugees. UNHCR strengthened its cooperation with the Ministry of Education, academic and mass media institutions.

At the same time, UNHCR office in Minsk relies on several local NGOs as implementing agencies that complement the role of the Government in such areas as: provision of social services and medical assistance for the vulnerable individual cases, education for refugee children, legal assistance and refugee representation in courts, public awareness building, vocational training and income-generation. Via the regional branches of these NGOs and "Umbrella agency" arrangements, UNHCR manages to render assistance to refugees and ASs nationwide. Although UNHCR's assistance strategy was aimed at connecting refugees to state welfare, educational and medical systems, the role of NGOs has remained vital in terms of bringing additional financial resources and expertise to the areas that cannot be fully covered by the Government due to the difficult economic and social situation in the country, as well as the situation of legal limbo that some of UNHCR's beneficiaries are in.