Ireland Gha2009

Humanitarian donor profiles

GHA Report 2009

Ireland’s total official humanitarian assistance expenditure, 2007

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

CHF

ERF

26

13

1

150

235

19.1%

11.2%

5.7%

0.5%

63.6%

100.0%

83

Sudan was the top recipient of Irish official humanitarian assistance in 2007 and also its top UN CAP appeal recipient, accounting for 5.5% of Ireland’s reported expenditure through the FTS in 2007

50

6 5

10 7

10

10

12

11

10

Imputed CERF

0 Total official humanitarian assistance allocable by country

Ireland is the seventh largest contributor to the CERF. In 2007, its US$26m accounted for 11.2% of its total official humanitarian expenditure

235 136

112

70

59

53

60

100

63

150

Sudan was the largest recipient of Ireland’s official humanitarian assistance in 2007, accounting for 9.9% of the total allocable by country (including CERF)

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

Share of Irish GNI spent on total official humanitarian assistance 2007

Zimbabwe

Iraq

Sudan Work Plan (Humanitarian Action component) 5.5%

50

Outside the CAP 61.9%

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2001

2002

0

Data notes

Ireland’s humanitarian expenditure, reported through the FTS, 2006-2008 See Data notes

Ireland spent US$64m on 16 consolidated and flash appeals in 2008 – this expenditure (referred to as ‘inside the CAP’) was equivalent to 38.7% of its bilateral humanitarian expenditure in 2008

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

119

141

43

73

64

2007

150

2006

200

DRC was the largest recipient of Irish contributions to UN flash and consolidated appeal funding in 2008, accounting for 21.9% of US$64m funding ‘inside the CAP’ (or 6.8% of the total reported by Ireland through the FTS)

133

250

205

192

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

100

90 50 Total reported through the FTS (prelim)

0

2008

US$ million

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

0.11%

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

Bilateral

Ireland’s total official humanitarian expenditure, 2007

73.2%

Multilateral (UN agencies)

2000

US$ million (constant 2007 prices)

Multilateral (EC)

Central African Rep.

Total official humanitarian expenditure

Palestinian Adm. Areas

Chad

Sierra Leone

Liberia

Somalia

Sudan

Congo, Dem. Rep.

Other countries

-10

Ireland’s total official humanitarian assistance expenditure 2000-2008

US$235m US$56

30

15

20%

www.irishaid.gov.ie/

200

Other

45

70

www.goodhumanitariandonorship.org/domestic–implementation.asp,

250

Total

Pooled funding

% total

Top 10 recipients of Ireland’s total official humanitarian assistance expenditure, 2007 90

Ireland’s humanitarian aid emphasises the links between vulnerability, poverty and crisis. Irish Aid put a GHD domestic implementation plan in place in July 2005 and in 2007 produced a rapid response initiative plan. Ireland’s development assistance programme (including the humanitarian component) was DAC peer reviewed in March 2009. www.irishaid.gov.ie/Uploads/Emergencies%20flyer.pdf

CERF

US$m

19

In 2007, total humanitarian assistance expenditure accounted for 19.7% of Ireland’s total ODA (excluding debt relief ) – an increasing share of an increasing aid budget and the highest such rate within the DAC in 2007.

Bilateral (lightly to totally earmarked)

UN agencies/EC

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

US$ million (constant 2007 prices)

Ireland was the 13th largest DAC donor of humanitarian aid by volume in 2007 – but the fourth most generous when measured as a share of its GNI. Its bilateral and multilateral contributions totalled US$235 million – or 2.7% of the collective DAC total – which is equivalent to 0.11% of its GNI. Total humanitarian assistance expenditure increased by 73.2% between 2006 and 2007. Preliminary DAC data suggests that bilateral contributions could fall from US$190 million in 2007 to US$158 million in 2008.

Multilateral (totally unearmarked)

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

Democratic Republic of Congo 6.8% Sudan 6.3% West Africa 3.5% Chad 3.2% Zimbabwe 2.8% Somalia 2.6% Central African Republic 2.6% Uganda 1.0% Myanmar 0.6% Kenya 0.4% Other appeals inside the CAP 1.2%

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 69.0%

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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