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Executive summary
The Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) data access and transparencyprogramme estimates that the international resources allocated to humanitarianassistance were just over US$15 billion in 2007 and anticipates that they will proveto be in the region of US$18 billion in 2008 (pending further data release during2009). Of the 2007 total, over half (US$8.7 billion) came from the DevelopmentAssistance Committee (DAC) donors in the form of ‘total official humanitarianassistance expenditure’. These donors also contributed US$3.1 billion in the formof ‘humanitarian’post-conflict and security-related expenditure. Public donationsto NGOs, UN agencies and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement alsoamounted to US$3.1 billion. Non-DAC donors reported a further US$341 million inhumanitarian assistance. Nevertheless, according to UN OCHA Financial TrackingSystem (FTS) data, and using the consolidated appeal process (CAP) as a proxymeasure to assess whether this level of funding met humanitarian needs – thecardinal principle of the Good Humanitarian Donorship (GHD) Initiative – around30% of needs have gone unmet in each of the last three years, and coverage hasvaried widely from crisis to crisis.The US$8.7 billion total official humanitarian assistance expenditure of the 23 DACmembers – of which US$7.8 billion was ‘bilateral’and US$913 million (totallyunearmarked) ‘multilateral’– represents a fall for the second year running.However, preliminary data indicates that bilateral humanitarian assistance fromDAC donors reached US$10.4 billion in 2008, which would represent an increase of 28.6% on 2007 bilateral assistance in real terms. The largest individual DAC donorsin terms of volume in 2007 were the United States, the European Commission (EC)and the United Kingdom. The most generous in terms of share of gross nationalincome (GNI) and per citizen funding were Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden andIreland. Sudan was the largest recipient of DAC humanitarian assistance for thethird consecutive year in 2007, followed by Palestine/OPTand the DemocraticRepublic of Congo (DRC). Half of all DAC humanitarian assistance was channelledthrough UN agencies and a quarter through NGOs.Data captured by UN OCHA FTS confirms that the number of non-DAC donors isincreasing and that some of the larger non-DAC donors (e.g. Gulf States such asSaudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kuwait) now make greatercontributions to humanitarian expenditure than some of the smaller DAC members.Collectively, non-DAC donors increased their humanitarian assistance reported tothe FTS by 217% in 2008, largely based on increased multilateral contributions. Thedata also shows that non-DAC donors tend to fund crises that are geographicallyclose, and sometimes provide the majority of humanitarian funding in the recipientcountries that they prioritise.NGOs received some US$2.6 billion of the US$3.1 billion provided by members of the public and private institutions in support of humanitarian activities to NGOs,UN agencies and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in 2007. These ‘publicdonations’to NGOs added roughly one-fifth to NGOs’DAC-donor fundedhumanitarian assistance operations that year. Analysis based on the accounts of asample group of 19 major NGOs and coalitions indicates that NGOs spent anestimated US$4.9 billion on humanitarian assistance in 2007.
GHA focuses on the formal, internationalresponse to crises, and relies mainly ondata provided by the DAC and FTSMuch humanitarian assistance is providedby local communities, neighbouring countries and families or friends living abroad. This is not currently quantified andremains invisible in humanitarianassistance statistics despite its importancefor saving lives and protecting livelihoodsChapter 3, Global humanitarian assistanceChapter 4, Official (DAC) humanitarianassistanceChapter 5, Humanitarian assistance fromnon-DAC donorsChapter 6, Humanitarian assistancethrough NGOs
 
GHA Report
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Public donations to NGOs, UN agencies andRed Cross and Red Crescent Movement
2007 / US$3.1bn2008 /
data not available in full Annual reports and initial programme researchHumanitarian assistance from non-DAC donors
2007 / US$341m2008 / US$ 1.1bn
UN OCHA FTSPost-conflict and security-related ODA (DAC donors)
2007 / US$3.1bn2008 /
data not available until December 2009OECD DAC StatMultilateral official humanitarian assistance(DAC donors to UN agencies)
2007 / US$913m2008 /
data not available until December 2009OECD DAC Stat, DAC2a DisbursementsBilateral official humanitarian assistance(DAC donors)
2007 / US$7.8bn2008 / US$10.4bn (prelim)
OECD DAC Stat, DAC1 Official and Private FlowsTotal official humanitarian assistance(DAC donors)
2007 / US$8.7bn2008 /
data not available in fullOECD DAC Stat, DAC1 and DAC2a
20072008
US$15bnUS$18bn
Global humanitarian assistance
Top 10 recipients of DAC donor US$mhumanitarian assistance 2007Sudan1,263Palestinian Adm Areas833DRC408 Afghanistan307Iraq306Lebanon321Ethiopia291Somalia255Pakistan233Indonesia228
    2    0    0    0    2    0    0    1    2    0    0    2    2    0    0    3    2    0    0    4    2    0    0    5    2    0    0     6    2    0    0    7    2    0    0     8      (    p    r    e     l     i    m      )
    6 .   5   2   1    6 ,   3   1   7    6 ,   5   7   0   7 ,   9   4   2   7 .   9   4   3   1   0 ,    8   4   3   9 ,   7   9   7    8 ,    6    8   9
    U    S    $   m    i    l    l    i   o   n    (   c   o   n   s   t   a   n   t   2   0   0   7   p   r    i   c   e   s    )
Total official humanitarianassistanceMultilateral (UN agencies)Bilateral
   1   0 ,   0   0   0
We estimate the international resourcesallocated to humanitarian assistance tohave amounted to at least US$15 billion in2007 and US$18 billion in 2008DAC donors contributed US$8.7bn in totalofficial humanitarian assistance in 2007.The largest donor by volume was theUnited States, followed by the EC, theUnited Kingdom and Germany. The mostgenerous was Luxembourg, followed byNorway, Sweden and IrelandSudan was the largest recipient, receiving US$1.3bn (17.1%) of the total allocableby country
 
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% Needs not met% Needs met
200620072008IncomeExpenditure
TotalCHFs/ERFsCERF
2006IncomeExpenditure2007IncomeExpenditure2008
299284259270
   5    8   3   5   3   0
 385 321
   7   0    6
 351286
    6   3   7
453408
    8    6   1
429 351
   7    8   0
    U    S    $   m    i    l    l    i   o   n
Funded by publicdonations, US$2.6bnFunded by officialsources, US$2.3bn
    2    0    0     6    2    0    0    7    2    0    0     8
586998
Top 10 recipients of non-DAC donor US$mhumanitarian assistance 2008China125 Yemen105Palestinian Occupied Territories87Myanmar35Sudan24Tajikstan17Korea, Republic of16Georgia8 Jordan8Syrian Arab Republic5
In 2008 non-DAC donors reportedUS$1.1bn through the FTS. The largestdonor was Saudi Arabia. The distributionof non-DAC funding is highly significantfor some people in some humanitariancrises – Yemen, one of the mostunderfunded CAPappeals in 2008,received around four-fifths of its funding from non-DAC donors. The number of non-DAC donors reporting to the FTSis increasing Public donations accounted for US$3.1bnof humanitarian assistance in 2007,US$2.6bn of which was donated to NGOs.NGOs received a further US$2.3bn insupport of humanitarian activities fromofficial sources Around 30% of the needs identified aspart of the UN consolidated appealprocess (CAP) have gone unmet in each of the last three years. Coverage varieswidely from crisis to crisisContributions to CERF and country-levelpooled funds have increased by 50% since2006. CERF fundingwent to 55 countriesin 2008
    N   u   m    b   e   r   o    f   n   o   n  -    D    A    C    d   o   n   o   r   s
   3   3 .   5    %   2   7 .   7    %   2   9 .    8    %
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