GHA
Report
2011

This briefing paper analyses Bangladesh as an aid recipient. It also looks at other financial flows such as remittances, as well as country statistics and indicators such as multidimensional poverty....

This briefing paper analyses India as an aid donor and an aid recipient. It also looks at other financial flows such as government revenues, foreign direct investment and remittances (both inward and outward) and poverty indicator...

Ethiopia is a major recipient of humanitarian aid: between 2001 and 2010, Ethiopia received 6% of the total international humanitarian assistance from governments and private donors. ...

In the lead up to the next High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan this month this report provides information on Korea’s development and humanitarian aid spending....

At the beginning of 2011GHA commissioned a detailed programme evaluation that was carried out by independent consultant Ian Smillie. In summary the evaluation observed that “the programme has met or exceeded all of the output ta...

Following the GHA evaluation that was carried out at the beginning of 2011, management from Development Initiatives issued a response to the recommendations....

This is a summary document of GHA Report 2011 which presents the very latest data on financial flows to humanitarian crises. Within the main report chapters on the provenance, destination and journey of humanitarian funding, the...

The main aim of emergency response funds (ERFs) is to provide rapid and flexible funding to in-country actors to address unforeseen humanitarian needs. This report provides information and data on the ERFs that exist at present, i...

Since December 2010 six out of 22 Arab countries (Yemen, Syria, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Bahrain) have had major uprisings but only two (Egypt and Tunisia) have successfully managed regime change. In this briefing we analyse huma...

In this briefing we analyse humanitarian aid from Arab donors and put these contributions in the context of other donor governments. In addition we analyse Arab donor contributions to the Horn of Africa and the Arab Spring....

Aid will continue to be an important resource flow to underwrite the provision of basic services and to meet humanitarian needs in a country where the state, still only six years old, lacks capacity, where the economy is overwhe...

This fact-sheet is a round-up of facts and aid data for Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya and Somalia.  ...

This report analyses the changing patterns in non-DAC donor development and humanitarian financing, focusing specifically on the key players and the changing trends in delivery and recipient allocation. It attempts to go beyond th...

South Sudan was declared an independent state on 9th July 2011 and became a recipient of aid in its own right rather than as a region of Sudan. This provides new opportunities for donors to channel aid resources to South Sudan and...

This case study set out to explore the various sources and volumes of income of the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) as well as the benefits and challenges associated with the various resource streams.  Furthermore, the study exami...

If a disaster occurs in a country where pooled funds already exist they can prove an important tool for coordinating emergency, reconstruction and recovery aid and ensuring that needs are met. Occasionally a fund will be created s...

We asked you back in February to give us your feedback on the GHA programme. We wanted to know what we have been doing right and where we could do better or differently, from the point of view of you, our users. Through an online ...

Between 1998 and 2000 Japan was the largest aid donor reporting to the OECD DAC – its contributions peaked to US$12.4 billion in 2000. However, in terms of humanitarian aid, Japan is less generous. Its largest contribution w...

This annual report  covers the period 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010 and provides a narrative of the Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) programme’s progress against objectives and activities outlined in the grant proposal as ...

This annual report  covers the period 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009 and provides a narrative of the Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) programme’s progress against objectives and activities outlined in the grant proposal as ...

The situation in Yemen is complex due to a multiplicity of issues such as internal protracted conflict, al-Qaeda activity, risks of vulnerabilities to natural disasters, water shortages and refugee displacement. Yemen ranks low on...

A key element of the humanitarian reform process that began formally in 2005 was the need to improve funding for humanitarian crises on a global scale, especially through the use of pooled funding. This resulted in the evolution o...

Sudan is a major aid recipient, but also a challenging one from the perspective of government donors. The January 2011 referendum that will lead to the secession of South Sudan will create new opportunities and challenges in the c...

This latest report sheds light on Afghanistan’s rapid transformation the world’s leading recipient of aid. It reveals the nature of the domestic and international aid architecture which has developed to receive and administer ...

This second case study on domestic response focuses on Bangladesh and takes a look at how Bangladeshis respond when a crisis hits their country. As a country prone to natural disasters it seems it’s the assistance which comes e...

This report is a collection of articles that the Global Humanitarian Assistance team have written on this year’s humanitarian appeal. In these articles we examine the scope and scale of this record appeal, question the dollar va...

This paper is Development Initiatives’ submission to the Humanitarian Emergency Response Review (HERR) that the Department for International Development (DFID) has commissioned. It makes recommendations on the proposed value for...

This bi-annual report provides an update on GHA programme activities and progress over the last 6 months and plans for the future. Highlights include the launch of the new GHA website, country profiles including analysis of the d...

This briefing paper presents the findings from our research on the use of multi-sectoral needs assessments following the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010. It is one of two case studies that we conducted (the other being South S...

This study looks at domestic humanitarian response in Uganda. Who in Uganda helps their fellow countrymen at a time of crisis, how do they assist and what is the impact of this response. This is one of two case studies we conduc...

This briefing paper presents the findings from our research on the use of multi-sectoral needs assessments in Southern Sudan. It is one of two case studies that we conducted (the other being the initial response to the Haiti earth...

Published in early February 2010, this is the Global Humanitarian Assistance team's first GHA Update....

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Published in July 2009, GHA Report 2009 presents the latest data on financial flows to humanitarian crises, making the links between short-term acute crises and long-term chronic poverty....

Most analyses of humanitarian assistance funding focus on the efforts of DAC donors and the relevant multilateral agencies for whom data is readily available. This excludes many sources of humanitarian assistance, notably contribu...

Inside we examine the humanitarian funds that come from what we sometimes call ‘traditional donor countries’ as well as those that are new or newly influential. There are also sections examining the increasing use of pooled fu...

GHD Indicator Report 2008 reports against data for 2007....

Published in March 2008, Global Humanitarian Assistance 2007/2008 looks at official humanitarian assistance expenditure relating to 2006 and other flows reported through the UN OCHA FTS to the end of 2007....

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2005 created a new environment for global humanitarian assistance. Are the emerging patterns and trends unique? Or do they signal a new architecture with a more diverse set of actors and different ways of working? Published in May...

GHA 2004/05 Update was issued in June 2005....

GHA 2003 was the first report of its kind to bring together data to provide an estimate of overall humanitarian assistance, putting the international resources at at least US$10 billion a year....

Published in May 2001, GHA 2000 was the first in the Global Humanitarian Assistance series of reports....