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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