GHA-Report-2010.pdf - Global Humanitarian Assistance

SUPPORT FOR UN PROCESSES
AND FINANCING MECHANISMS
SUPPORT FOR MULTILATERAL CHANNELS
Traditionally, non-DAC donors have
channelled a larger proportion of
humanitarian aid bilaterally to the
affected recipient governments whereas
in contrast, DAC donors have favoured
multilateral channels. In 2008 just
3% of DAC humanitarian aid was
channelled bilaterally compared 30.8%
of non-DAC donor humanitarian aid.
Whilst the proportion of non-DAC donor
humanitarian contributions directed to
recipient governments is higher than
DAC contributions, recent trends show
that traditional non-DAC donor patterns
of channelling humanitarian aid seem
to be changing. For example, in 2009
non-DAC donor bilateral contributions
dropped from 30.8% to 7.3% and
contributions through UN multilateral
organisations rose from 51.6% to 83.6%.
The evidence suggests this may not be
a complete change in delivery priorities.
UN appeals for Pakistan, Palestine/OPT
and Afghanistan – all priorites for non-
DAC donors – may have promoted more
funding through UN channels.
SUPPORT FOR FINANCING MECHANISMS
Government donors make significant
contributions to pooled funding
mechanisms. In 2008:
• of total government donor
humanitarian contributions (US$12.8
billion), 6.8% (US$851 million) was
channelled to humanitarian pooled
funds (CERF, ERF, and CHF)
• the majority of this funding was from
DAC donors (US$845 million, 97.4%)
• government donors gave U$452.3
million to the CERF (99.8%
of the total) of which US$446.5
million (98.5%) was from DAC
donors and US$5.8 million (1.3%)
from non-DAC donors
• the largest DAC donor to pooled funds
(CERF, ERFs and CHFs) was the UK
with US$255 million; the highest
non-DAC contributor was Korea
with US$2 million.
SUPPORT FOR THE CONSOLIDATED
APPEALS PROCESS (CAP)
Since 2000, governments and the EC
have provided over US$26 billion in
response to 235 appeals launched
by the UN Office of Coordination for
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) as part
of the consolidated appeals process
(CAP). The overwhelming majority of this
(97.1%) has come from DAC donors.
In the past non-DAC donors have tended
to channel much smaller proportions of
their humanitarian aid through the UN
CAP process. There was a major change
in 2009 however, where 78.2% of non-
DAC donor funding was spent inside the
appeal. Data shows that this was driven
largely by a by a few non-DAC donors
giving to appeals in countries that non-
DAC donors usually favour, (UAE US$30
million and Pakistan US$25.5 million to
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia US$25 million
and Kuwait US$34 million to Palestine/
OPT and US$10.4 million from India
and US$10 million from the Russian
Federation to Afghanistan.)
FIGURE 20: SHARE OF FTS-REPORTED HUMANITARIAN EXPENDITURE SPENT
ON UN CAP APPEALS, 2000-2009
REMITTANCE AS % GDP
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
2000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2008
DAC donors
Non-DAC donors
Source: UN OCHA FTS
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