Austria Gha2009

Humanitarian donor profiles

GHA Report 2009

Austria’s total official humanitarian assistance expenditure, 2007

Austria Total official humanitarian share of Austria’s total ODA (excluding debt relief ), 2007

38

0.4%

0

0

15

53

72.0%

0.8%

0.0%

0.0%

27.3%

100.0%

Palestine/OPT was both the largest recipient of Austrian official humanitarian assistance in 2007 and its top UN CAP appeal recipient, accounting for 25.0% of its reported expenditure through the FTS in 2007

Top 10 recipients of Austria’s total official humanitarian assistance expenditure, 2007

40

30 25

8

15 10

Imputed CERF

74 63 53

2

2

2

1

Chad

Congo, Dem. Rep.

Somalia

Jordan

3

2 Uganda

3

3

Indonesia

Sri Lanka

Lebanon

Multilateral (UN agencies)

31

40

30

24

31

40

Sudan

Multilateral (EC)

Bilateral 50

36

US$ million (constant 2007 prices)

Total official humanitarian expenditure

Palestinian Adm. Areas

Other countries

Austria's total official humanitarian assistance expenditure 2000-2008

Palestine/OPT was the largest recipient of Austria’s official humanitarian assistance in 2007, accounting for 15.7% of the total allocable by country (including CERF)

Top recipient of Austria’s flash and consolidated appeal funding, 2007

Total official humanitarian assistance allocable by country

Austria spent 72.0% of its total official humanitarian assistance expenditure in totally unearmarked form through UN agencies in 2007. A further 0.8% was reported in support of the CERF

15

See Data notes

Austria spent US$4.9m on eight consolidated and flash appeals in 2008 – this expenditure (referred to as ‘inside the CAP’) was equivalent to 32.7 % of its bilateral humanitarian expenditure in 2008

2008

14

10

8

Palestine/OPT was the largest recipient of Austrian contributions to UN flash and consolidated appeal funding in 2008, accounting for 38.2% of the US$4.9m that Austria spent ‘inside the CAP’ (or 12.3% of the total reported by Austria through the FTS)

4

5

5

5

6

3

2

2 0

Total reported through the FTS

2008

2007

Other funding (‘outside the CAP’)

2006

US$ million

Although both relate to ‘humanitarian’ expenditure, FTS and DAC data are not comparable. Reporting requirements and definitions are different. Some, all or none of a DAC donor’s official humanitarian expenditure might be included in the FTS figures. In some instances, more might be reported in humanitarian assistance through the FTS than is included in OECD DAC data

Top recipients of Austria’s flash and consolidated appeal funding, 2008

12

10

Change in Austria’s total official humanitarian expenditure, 2006–2007

Data notes

Austria’s humanitarian expenditure, reported through the FTS, 2006-2008

3

-16.0%

Outside the CAP 37.0%

(prelim)

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

0

Amount contributed by each Austrian citizen to total official humanitarian assistance, 2007

Share of Austrian GNI spent on total official humanitarian assistance 2007

Palestinian territory, occupied 25.0%

10

8

Austria’s total official humanitarian expenditure, 2007

0.01%

20

16

US$53m US$6

20

5

6%

35

0

60

ERF

% total

5

70

Other

US$m

45

www.entwicklung.at/en.html

80

Total

Pooled funding

CHFs in 2007 relate to DRC and Sudan. The ERFs included in the data reported here are CAR, Ethiopia, Iraq, Somalia and Zimbabwe

Austria’s governmental aid is provided through the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC), which is coordinated by the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs (MFA). The Austrian Development Agency (ADA) is in charge of implementing the programmes and projects. ADC produced an international humanitarian aid policy document in March 2009. Its humanitarian programme was DAC peer reviewed at end of April 2009. www.entwicklung.at/uploads/media/PD_International_humanitarian_aid.pdf

CERF

21

In 2007, total humanitarian assistance expenditure accounted for 6.0% of Austria’s total ODA (excluding debt relief ) – a declining share of a growing aid budget over the last two years.

Bilateral (lightly to totally earmarked)

UN agencies/EC

CHF

US$ million (constant 2007 prices)

Austria was the 19th largest DAC donor of humanitarian aid by volume in 2007. Its bilateral and multilateral contributions totalled US$53 million – or 0.6% of the collective DAC total. Total official humanitarian expenditure fell by 16% between 2006 and 2007 – but levels are still higher than before the ‘exceptional’ year of 2005. Austria provides over 70% of its total humanitarian assistance in the form of totally unearmarked contributions through UN agencies and the EC – one of the highest rates within the DAC.

Multilateral (totally unearmarked)

UN flash and consolidated appeal funding (‘inside the CAP’)

Palestinian territory, occupied 12.3% Uganda 6.8% Sudan Work Plan 5.1% Myanmar 2.4% Southern African Region 1.9% Haiti 1.7% West Africa 1.0% Somalia 1.0%

Analysis of official humanitarian assistance is based on OECD DAC data (DAC1, 2a and CRS), downloaded in April 2009. The data for 2008 is preliminary and relates to bilateral humanitarian aid only. Full and final official data for 2008 will be published by the DAC in December 2009 Outside the CAP 67.9%

FTS data is published in real time on ReliefWeb and was downloaded in April 2009. Supplementary data on CERF and pooled funding was downloaded from their respective sites May/June 2009 All data is expressed in current US$m unless otherwise stated. Numbers may vary due to rounding

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