Humanitarian donor profiles
GHA Report 2009
Italy’s total official humanitarian assistance expenditure, 2007
Italy Italy was the 10th largest DAC donor of humanitarian aid by volume in 2007. Its bilateral and multilateral contributions totalled US$340 million – or 3.9% of the collective DAC total. Total humanitarian assistance expenditure increased by 1.0% between 2006 and 2007. Preliminary DAC data for 2008 suggests that bilateral contributions could fall from US$83 million in 2007 to US$77 million in 2008.
Bilateral (lightly to totally earmarked)
UN agencies/EC
CERF
CHF
Total official humanitarian share of Italy’s total ODA (excluding debt relief ), 2007
257
3
0
0
80
340
% total
75.6%
0.8%
0.0%
0.0%
23.6%
100.0%
120
Somalia was the eighth largest recipient of Italian official humanitarian assistance in 2007 but its top UN CAP appeal recipient, accounting for 6.1% of Italy’s reported expenditure through the FTS in 2007
42
60
8
7
Somalia
Uganda
Sri Lanka
10
Imputed CERF
9
13
13
15
40
340
336
353 256
303
332
285
327
US$ million (constant 2007 prices)
Congo, Dem. Rep.
Jordan
Indonesia
Sudan
Afghanistan
Lebanon
Palestinian Adm. Areas
Other countries
0
Total official humanitarian expenditure Multilateral (EC)
Total official humanitarian assistance allocable by country
Italy is the 19th largest contributor to the CERF. In 2007, its US$3m expenditure accounted for 0.8% of its total official humanitarian expenditure
Palestine/OPT was the largest recipient of Italy’s official humanitarian assistance in 2007, accounting for 19.7% of the total allocable by country (including CERF)
200 150
Change in Italy’s total official humanitarian expenditure, 2006–2007
0.02%
Top recipient of Italy’s flash and consolidated appeal funding, 2007
Bilateral
Amount contributed by each Italian citizen to total official humanitarian assistance, 2007
1.0%
Multilateral (UN agencies)
250
Italy’s total official humanitarian expenditure, 2007
US$6
69
80
20
Italy’s total official humanitarian assistance expenditure 2000-2008
US$340m
100
51
10%
300
ERF
US$m
Top 10 recipients of Italy’s total official humanitarian assistance expenditure, 2007
US$ million (constant 2007 prices)
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350
Other
CHFs in 2007 relate to DRC and Sudan. The ERFs included in the data reported here are CAR, Ethiopia, Iraq, Somalia and Zimbabwe
Italy’s humanitarian assistance is funded through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A DAC peer review of Italy’s development cooperation programme – the first since 2004 – got underway in May 2009.
400
Total
Pooled funding
113
In 2007, total humanitarian assistance expenditure accounted for 10.0% of Italy’s total ODA (excluding debt relief ) – a share that has been relatively constant for several years.
Multilateral (totally unearmarked)
Share of Italian GNI spent on total official humanitarian assistance 2007
Somalia 6.1%
100 50
2008
Outside the CAP 80.2%
(prelim)
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
0
Data notes
Italy’s humanitarian expenditure, reported through the FTS, 2006-2008 See Data notes
Italy spent US$73m on 18 consolidated and flash appeals in 2008 – this expenditure (referred to as ‘inside the CAP’) was equivalent to 87.0% of its bilateral humanitarian expenditure in 2008 Top recipients of Italy’s flash and consolidated appeal funding, 2008
252
300
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
Sudan was the largest recipient of Italian contributions to UN flash and consolidated appeal funding in 2008, accounting for 21.4% of the US$73m funding ‘inside the CAP’ (or 6.2% of the total reported through the FTS)
100
115
150
103
200
92
92
11
23
50
179 73
0
2008
2007
Total reported through the FTS
2006
US$ million
250
Other funding (‘outside CAP’) UN flash and consolidated appeal funding (‘inside CAP’)
Sudan Work Plan 6.2% Palestinian territory, occupied 5.7% Somalia 4.1% Uganda 2.4% Democratic Republic of Congo 2.4% Myanmar 1.9% Chad 1.6% West Africa 0.9% Zimbabwe 0.7% Georgia 0.6% Other appeals inside the CAP 2.5%
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 71.0%
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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