GHA-Report-2010.pdf - Global Humanitarian Assistance

Together, the top 10 recipients of
humanitarian aid from DAC donors
since 1999 – Sudan, Palestine/OPT,
Iraq, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, DRC,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, States
Ex-Yugoslavia and Somalia (in order)
– have accounted for 57.7% (US$41.5
billion) of the total humanitarian aid
disbursed by DAC donors over the
10-year period. As the pattern in Table
2 shows, some countries regularly
appear in the top 10 list of recipients. It
also highlights that some countries are
subject to different types of emergency
that require different types of funding:
some are the result of conflicts
that have a clear end point from a
humanitarian funding point of view (for
example, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia,
States Ex-Yugoslavia and Angola);
some situations are more complex and
intractable requiring ongoing funding
(Sudan, DRC); and some are the result
of natural disasters that see a peak in
funding for a year or two (India following
Gujarat earthquake in 2001, Pakistan
in 2005 and 2006 following Kashmir
earthquake and Indonesia/Sri Lanka in
2005 and 2006 following the tsunami).
Humanitarian assistance is
concentrated on a small number of
countries. The ten largest recipients
of humanitarian assistance from
DAC donors accounted for 62.5%
(US$6.4 billion) of the total in 2008.
The remaining 37.5% (US$3.8 billion)
was shared between 138 countries.
(See Figure 9.)
FIGURE 9: CONCENTRATION OF RECIPIENT COUNTRY FUNDING
FROM DAC DONORS, 2006-2008
35.4%
39.5%
37.5%
SHARE OF TOTAL
32.5%
5.8%
9.6%
26.6%
5.5%
11.3%
16.7% 17.1%
32.2%
8.1%
8.5%
13.7%
2006 2007 2008
Outside the top 10
Others in the top 10
Third largest recipient
Second largest recipient
Largest recipient
Source: Development Intiatives based on OECD DAC data
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