The centre emphasizes the importance of contact and collaboration with international organizations, institutions, and professionals in other countries involved in research and practical work with refugees and victims of organized violence, through mutual visits, participation in conferences, and collaboration in teaching and research programmes. Formal collaboration agreements are drawn up in cooperation with the International Department of the University of Oslo. The Psychosocial Centre for Refugees is funded mainly by the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. The University of Oslo contributes with two part-time professorships and financial support for the centre's periodical and infrastructural services. The municipality of Oslo also contributes by funding one of the centre's senior consultant psychiatrists.
Additional income is derived from social security refunds and from teaching assignments.
All research projects and international collaboration projects have their own external funding. The scientific staff consists of a full professorship combined with the position of director and two part-time professorships in transcultural psychiatry and transcultural psychology. The out-patient clinic currently employs three psychiatrists, one clinical psychologist, and one psychiatric nurse, who is also an expressive art therapist. The nurse and one psychiatrist work part-time.