IS MULTI-ANNUAL HUMANITARIAN AID A REAL POSSIBILITY?In the OECD’s 2016 annual forward spending survey, 12 DAC donors (out of 29) were able to report their humanitarian budgets out to 2019. This internal budget predictability suggests that multi-annual funding is a real possibility for those donors.

IS HUMANITARIAN FINANCE INCREASING? From 2010 to 2014, humanitarian assistance from DAC donors has grown from 9.4% to 12% of net ODA, an increase of USD 4.53 billion – to a total of USD 18.42 billion in 2014. The humanitarian aid budget is on the rise.

DAC donors: Key figures in humanitarian aid

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Number of DAC donors able to report their humanitarian budgets for future years

Net ODA is increasing, as is the share to humanitarian assistance and in-donor refugee costs

*2015 data are preliminary and do not include imputed multilateral humanitarian assistance.

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WHICH DAC DONORS ARE PROVIDING HUMANITARIAN FUNDS?The United States remains the largest DAC donor by volume. In 2014, humanitarian assistance from the United States was roughly equal to the humanitarian assistance provided by all other DAC members combined.

WHERE IS HUMANITARIAN FINANCE GOING? Unsurprisingly, between 2012 and 2014, the top ten recipients of humanitarian finance from DAC donors were mostly in Africa and the Middle East. Surprisingly, two of the top ten recipient countries did not issue humanitarian appeals in any of those years (Ethiopia and Pakistan).

Humanitarian aid from DAC members in 2014, USD millions

Top 10 recipents of total DAC humanitarian aid, 2012-2014

Source for all figures: OECD-DAC Statistics

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