Objective data on resource flows is key to providing a shared evidence base for those who are working to achieve the best possible use of resources for people vulnerable to crises and insecurity.
We gather data from a variety of sources and aim to share as much of our work and analysis as possible via the datastore.
Access our working spreadsheets and analyses on humanitarian data via downloadable Excel files.
Prepared for the Conférence Nationale Humanitaire, November 2011, this provides a brief profile of France’s humanitarian aid, development aid, and UN appeals expenditure (with a focus on UN appeal and emergency funding by delivery agency in the Horn of Africa and Libya).
Analysis of bilateral funding to the crisis plus imputed multilateral contributions via humanitarian pooled funds plus the EU Institutions.
This excel file contains all the analysis for the report ‘non-DAC donors and humanitarian aid: shifting structures changing trends’. The majority of data is from the UN OCHA FTS database which was downloaded on 5 April 2011 and had a macro applied to it.
Here are our top five latest graphs! How much global humanitarian aid is there and what does it include? How much humanitarian aid goes to conflict-affected states? Who are the top 20 recipients of humanitarian aid? How much aid is humanitarian? And, if humanitarian funding reached US$15.1 billion in 2009, how come so many needs went unmet in the UN appeals?
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We work with the best information we have and try to be clear about what it tells us and what it doesn’t. We think that the data we report on is a good start - but we know that it only captures part of the picture.
Our Data & Guides section aims to help you navigate your way around the reporting of funding in response to humanitarian crises.
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Traditional definitions of humanitarian aid usually point to its ‘short-term’ nature and the provision of funding for activities in the ‘immediate aftermath’ of a disaster. But the reality is that most humanitarian aid is spent in conflict-affected countries over a longer term. This makes counting it complicated!
Of the main players in humanitarian aid, only one group is obliged to report its humanitarian expenditure to strict criteria and along comparable lines each year - that’s the European Commission and 23 government donors that comprise the OECD DAC. This section looks at how humanitarian aid gets reported and where we get our data from on contributions from individuals, NGOs, governments, UN agencies and international organisations.
A glossary of terms, a list of acronyms and a breakdown of which countries we include in each region.
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