OCHA Humanitarian Icons 2026

The official set of 389 humanitarian icons used across OCHA products, publications, and digital platforms. All icons are single-color SVGs in OCHA blue (#009edb), designed to work at any size from 16px to print resolution.

Maintained by the OCHA Brand and Design Unit (BDU).

Browse the svg/ folder and download individual SVG files.

Load any icon directly via jsDelivr — no download needed:

<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/UN-OCHA/humanitarian-icons-2026-BDU@main/svg/Shelter.svg" alt="Shelter" />

Pattern:

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/UN-OCHA/humanitarian-icons-2026-BDU@main/svg/{Icon-name}.svg

All icons are also served from GitHub Pages:

https://un-ocha.github.io/humanitarian-icons-2026-BDU/svg/{Icon-name}.svg

Ready-to-use packages in the output/ folder:

metadata.json contains structured data for every icon — name, family, keywords, and wordmark eligibility:

{
  "icons": {
    "Agriculture": {
      "name": "Agriculture",
      "family": "Food security",
      "keywords": ["farming", "crops"],
      "wordmark": true,
      "wordmark_valign": 0
    }
  }
}

All SVGs use OCHA blue #009edb. To change colour, apply a CSS filter or edit the fill attribute.

389 icons across 19 categories.

Advocacy	Agile	Analysis	Assessment	Cash transfer	Civil military coordination
Community engagement	Coordinated assessment	Deployment	Financing	Fund	Gap analysis
Humanitarian programme cycle	Information management	Information technology	Innovation	Leadership	Learning
Meeting	Monitoring	Needs assessment	Partnership	Policy	Preparedness
Public information	Reporting	Response	Scale down operation	Scale up operation	Search and rescue
Services and tools	Sexual and reproductive health	Staff management	Top ranking	Training

IDP refugee camp

Permanent camp

Registration

Spontaneous site

Temporary camp

Transition site

Camp coordination and camp management	Early recovery	Education	Emergency telecommunications	Food security	Health
Logistics	Nutrition	Protection	Shelter	Water sanitation and hygiene

Airport affected	Airport destroyed	Airport not affected	Bridge affected	Bridge destroyed	Bridge not affected
Building facility affected	Building facility destroyed	Building facility not affected	Damaged affected	Destroyed	Health facility affected
Health facility destroyed	Health facility not affected	House affected	House destroyed	House not affected	Not affected
Port affected	Port destroyed	Port not affected	Power electricity affected	Power electricity not affected	Power outage
Road affected	Road destroyed	Road not affected	School affected	School destroyed	School not affected

Anticipatory action	Cold wave	Conflict	Cyclone	Drought	Earthquake
Epidemic	Famine	Fire	Flash flood	Flood	Heatwave
Heavy rain	Humanitarian access	Insect infestation	Internally displaced	Landslide mudslide	Locust infestation
Population return	Poverty	Refugee	Resilience	Snow avalanche	Snowfall
Storm	Storm surge	Technological disaster	Tornado	Tsunami	Violent wind
Volcano	Worm infestation

Blanket	Bottled water	Bucket	Clothing	Detergent	Flour
Food	Kitchen set	Mattress	Medical supply	Medicine	Mosquito net
Non food items	Non food items 2	Oil	Plastic sheeting	Relief goods	Rice
Salt	Soap	Stove	Sugar	Tarpaulin	Tent
Vaccine

Assembly point	Buddhist temple	Building	Church	Clinic	Community building
Country	Diplomatic mission	Distribution site	Food warehouse	Government office	Health facility
Health post	Hindu temple	Hospital	Hotel	House	Infrastructure
Market	Mobile clinic	Mosque	NGO office	Oil facility	Police station
Power electricity	School	UN compound office	University

Bacteria	COVID-19	Case management	Doctor	Handwashing	Health worker
Hospital bed	Infected	Infection control	Laboratory	Life saving	Mask
Not infected	Physical distancing	Respiratory	Sanitizer	Testing	Ventilator
Virus

Airport closed	Border closed	Bridge closed	Building closed	House lockdown	Location lockdown
Market closed	Port closed	Road closed	School closed

Airport	Airport military	Boat	Bridge	Bus	Car
Ferry	Gas station	Helicopter	Helipad	Port	Road
Ship	Train	Truck	Tunnel	UN vehicle

Agriculture	Child care child friendly	Child protection	Coordination	Environment	Fishery
Logistics and telecommunications	Multi-cluster sector	Rule of law and justice	Safety and security	Shelter, land and site coordination

Affected population	Child combatant	Children	Dead	Drowned	Elderly
Gender	Indigenous people	Infant	Injured	Missing	National army
Peacekeeping force	People affected	People covered	People in need	People in need 2	People reached
People targeted	People targeted 2	People with physical impairments	Person 1	Person 2	Pregnant
Rebel	Resettlement	Sex

Border crossing	Checkpoint	Earthmound	Military gate	Observation tower	Physical closure
Road barrier	Roadblock

API	Calendar	Chart	Data	Document	Film
Live geoservices	Location	Map	P-code	Photo	Report
Table	Video

Abduction kidnapping	Arrest detention	Assault	Attack	Carjacking	Confined
Dangerous area	Forced entry	Forced recruitment	Gender based violence	Harassment intimidation	House burned
Mine	Murder	Robbery	Sexual violence

Debris management	Livelihood	Livestock	Population growth	Reconstruction	Rural
Rural exodus	Trade and market	Urban	Urban rural

Cell tower	Computer	E-mail	Fax	Internet	Laptop
Mobile phone	Monitor	Radio	Remote support	Satellite dish	Smartphone
Walkie talkie	Work from home

AI chat	About	Add	Add document	Alert	Apps
Blog	Bookmark	CSV file	Chat	Checked mail	Copy
DOCX file	Delete account	Down	Download	Edit	Exit cancel
Expand down	Expand left	Expand right	Expand up	Favourite	Filter
Folder	Go	Group	Help	Hidden	Link
Menu	More options	Next item	Not secured	Notification	Out of platform
PDF file	Password	Pause	Previous item	Print	Remove
Remove document	Return	Save	Search	Secured	Security
See	Selected	Settings	Share	Stop	Time
Trending	Up	Upload	User	Users	Validate account
Warning error	XLSX file	ZIP compressed

Borehole	Communal latrine	Latrine cabin	Potable water	Potable water source	Sanitation
Shower	Solid waste	Spring water	Submersible pump	Toilet	Water source
Water trucking

The OCHA Humanitarian Icons are licensed under CC BY 4.0. You are free to share and adapt them with appropriate credit to OCHA.

These tools are used by BDU to manage, generate, and distribute the icon collection. They are not intended for end users.

A browser-based tool that allows OCHA staff to create branded wordmarks using Humanitarian Icons. All wordmarks require BDU approval before final download.

Live tool: https://un-ocha.github.io/humanitarian-icons-2026-BDU/word-mark-generator/

105 of the 389 icons are approved for use in wordmarks. The approval workflow is automated: BDU changes a status in a Google Sheet, and the requester receives an email with a direct download link.

A browser-based tool for adding new icons, editing tags, changing families, and managing wordmark approval. Open icon-manager/index.html in Chrome or Edge — drag-drop SVGs, edit tags as chips, save back to metadata.json.

Python utilities for generating the distributable exports. Requires Python 3.9+ with dependencies in .venv/.

The full pipeline runs automatically on push via .github/workflows/sync-and-build.yml. The contributor's job is just to drop the SVG and update metadata.json — the icon manager handles the second part visually.

1. Open icon-manager/index.html in Chrome or Edge.
2. Click + Add Icon, drag your SVG into the drop zone, pick a family, type a few tags.
3. Click Add Icon → save the SVG into the repo's svg/ folder when prompted.
4. Click Export metadata.json → save it over the repo's metadata.json.
5. Commit and push:

   git add svg/ metadata.json
   git commit -m "add: <icon-name>"
   git push

If you'd rather edit JSON directly:

1. Drop the SVG in svg/ using kebab-case-with-capital-first (e.g. Drone.svg). Single colour: OCHA blue #009edb.
2. Add an entry to metadata.json["icons"]:

   "Drone": {
     "name": "Drone",
     "family": "Logistics",
     "tags": ["uav", "aerial vehicle", "quadcopter"],
     "wordmark": false,
     "wordmark_valign": 0,
     "font_codepoint": "",
     "date_added": "2026-05-19"
   }

   (font_codepoint is reassigned by CI on the next push — leave blank or use any value.)
3. Commit and push.

• Runs populate_metadata.py to refresh metadata.json (adds stubs for any new icons, normalises display names, reassigns font codepoints alphabetically).
• Regenerates output/Humanitarian_icons.xlsx, .csv, .pptx, the icon font, and the complete SVG grid.
• Uploads any new SVGs to the OCHA Frontify icon library and applies their tags.
• Commits the refreshed metadata.json and output/ files back to main.

If the Frontify step is ever skipped or fails, run it manually:

pip install -r requirements.txt
FRONTIFY_TOKEN="<your-token>" python scripts/sync_to_frontify.py --dry-run   # preview
FRONTIFY_TOKEN="<your-token>" python scripts/sync_to_frontify.py             # apply

The script is additive only — it never removes tags or deletes icons. Orphans (icons in Frontify but missing from svg/) are reported as warnings for manual investigation.

For the GitHub Action's Frontify sync step to work, the repo needs one secret:

1. Go to Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions in this repo.
2. Add a new repository secret named FRONTIFY_TOKEN containing a personal access token from brand.unocha.org with the brand + asset scopes.

Optional repo variables (defaults are correct for OCHA): FRONTIFY_DOMAIN (default brand.unocha.org), FRONTIFY_LIBRARY_ID (default 251023).

Javier Cueto, Head of Brand and Design Unit

OCHA Brand and Design Unit (BDU)

• Team: ochavisual@un.org
• Focal point: Javier Cueto (cuetoj@un.org)