Belgium Gha2009

Humanitarian donor profiles

GHA Report 2009

Belgium’s total official humanitarian assistance expenditure, 2007

Belgium Belgium was the 16th largest DAC donor of humanitarian aid by volume in 2007. Its bilateral and multilateral contributions totalled US$156 million – or 1.8% of the collective DAC total. Total humanitarian assistance expenditure fell by 7.3% between 2006 and 2007. However, preliminary DAC data suggests that bilateral contributions could reach US$112 million in 2008 – a rise of 21.4% on bilateral volumes in 2007.

CERF

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

64

3

1

0

89

156

% total

40.9%

1.9%

0.5%

0.0%

56.6%

100.0%

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

47

DRC was the largest recipient of Belgian official humanitarian assistance in 2007 and also its top UN CAP appeal recipient, accounting for 20.6% of its reported expenditure through the FTS that year

40

27

30

Imputed CERF

3

5

4

6

9

10

8

15

Total official humanitarian assistance allocable by country

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

Bilateral

89

90

93

100

DRC was the largest recipient of Belgium’s official humanitarian assistance in 2007, accounting for 18.0% of the total allocable by country (including CERF)

80 60

Sri Lanka

Uganda

Somalia

Multilateral (UN agencies)

Afghanistan

Lebanon

Indonesia

Sudan

Burundi

Congo, Dem. Rep.

Other countries

Palestinian Adm. Areas

156

169 148 123

Multilateral (EC)

120

94

US$ million (constant 2007 prices)

Total official humanitarian expenditure

Belgium’s total official humanitarian expenditure, 2007

US$15

14

20

0

Belgium’s total official humanitarian assistance expenditure 2000-2008

US$156m

25

9

9%

35

5

140

ERF

US$m

45

www.dgdc.be

160

Other

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

www.diplomatie.be/en/pdf/rapport–human–en.pdf

180

Total

Pooled funding

18

The Directorate General for Development Cooperation (DGDC), part of the Federal Public Service for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, is responsible for planning, guiding, supporting and following up on governmental development cooperation programmes. It published its own evaluation of humanitarian activities between 2002 and 2006 in May 2008. Belgium’s development cooperation policy was last DAC peer reviewed in October 2005. A follow-up peer review is scheduled for 2010.

Bilateral (lightly to totally earmarked)

UN agencies/EC

CHF

US$ million (constant 2007 prices)

In 2007, total humanitarian assistance expenditure accounted for 8.8% of Belgium’s total ODA (excluding debt relief ) – a lower share than in 2006. Total ODA (excluding debt relief ) increased very slightly (0.2%) between 2006 and 2007 but by nearly a fifth in 2008.

Multilateral (totally unearmarked)

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

-7.3% Belgium spent US$3m (or 1.9%) of its total official humanitarian expenditure through the CERF in 2007. It also provided just under US$1m to the Common Humanitarian Fund in DRC

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

0.03% Share of Belgian GNI spent on total official humanitarian assistance 2007

Democratic Republic of Congo Humanitarian Action Plan 20.6%

40 20

2008

Outside the CAP 47.6%

(prelim)

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

0

Data notes

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

90

100

See Data notes

78

90

Belgium spent US$35m on nine consolidated and flash appeals in 2008 – this expenditure (referred to as ‘inside the CAP’) was equivalent to 29.0% of its bilateral humanitarian expenditure that year Top recipients of Belgium’s flash and consolidated appeal funding, 2008

60

DRC was the largest recipient of Belgian contributions to UN flash and consolidated appeal funding in 2008, accounting for 59.8% of the US$35m funding that Belgium provided ‘inside the CAP’ (or 23.2% of the total reported by Belgium through the FTS)

37

50

55 40

38 30 20 10

Total reported through the FTS

29

41

35 2008

2007

0

2006

US$ million

67

80 60 70

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

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

Democratic Republic of Congo 23.2% Palestinian territory, occupied 5.8% West Africa 2.3% Sudan 2.2% Iraq 1.7% Central African Republic 1.4% Uganda 1.2% Myanmar 0.8% Kenya 0.3%

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 61.1%

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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