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Global Humanitarian Assistance 2003 is an independent report on funding from the international community to meet the humanitarian needs of people suffering as a result of conflict and natural disasters. GHA 2003 brings together data from OECD donors, UN agencies, International Organisations, NGOs and countries emerging as new donors. Analysing this data, the report for the first time provides an estimate of overall financial flows for humanitarian assistance. GHA 2003 estimates that global humanitarian assistance totals at least $10 billion a year. OECD donors allocate $5.5 billion of their aid to humanitarian work. But there is substantial spending falling outside narrow definitions, including more than $1 billion raised by NGOs from the public, funds from emerging donors, and funding from OECD governments for 'non-aid' humanitarian work. Chapter 2 provides key data on humanitarian assistance: How much is spent? Is it growing or declining? Who are the main donors? Which countries receive most? Is funding proportionate to need? How much funding is controlled by bilateral donors, the UN and International Organisations? What are the trends in humanitarian assistance through NGOs? Chapter 3 documents the definitions and systems that donors, agencies and NGOs use to account for humanitarian assistance. Chapter 4 gives an 'at a glance' report on twelve UN and International Organisations that deliver humanitarian assistance. The full report, data tables, additional information are all available as Adobe Acrobat PDF files on the links shown in the Contents listing below. Some of the PDF files below are large in size. The largest are Chapter 2 (350Kb) and Chapter 3 (160Kb). Please wait for these files to download to your browser. Please note that the PDF files contain links to Excel spreadsheet files. You may be asked for a password when accessing these links: if so, simply click cancel and your browser should take you straight to the data tables which you can browse in Excel or download for future reference.
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