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Humanitarian donor profilesGHA Report 2009

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United KingdomThe United Kingdom was the third largest DAC donor of humanitarian aid by volumein 2007. Its bilateral and multilateral contributions a US$743 million or 8.5% of thecollective DAC total. However, this amount could have been underreported by US$233million, which would put the country's total humanitarian assistance expenditure inthe region of US$976 million or 10.9% of the collective DAC total. Preliminary DACdata suggests that bilateral contributions alone could rise to US$710 million in 2008.

The United Kingdom's total humanitarian assistance expenditure accounted for 7.6%of its total ODA (excluding debt relief) in 2007, or 10.0% based on the higher volume both are lower shares than any other year since 2000.

In 2006, the Department for International Development (DFID) launched its humanitarianpolicy document ('Saving lives, relieving suffering, protecting dignity'), which sets out threemain goals: improving the effectiveness of humanitarian response; being a better donor;reducing risk and extreme vulnerability. The United Kingdom has been active in promotinghumanitarian reform and is a major contributor to the new financing mechanisms.

The United Kingdom signed up to the GHD principles in 2003 and produced a GHD domesticimplementation plan in July 2005. Its development assistance programme (including thehumanitarian component) was last DAC peer reviewed in May 2006. The next peer reviewis scheduled to take place in 2010.

www.goodhumanitariandonorship.org/domesticimplementation.asp

www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/humanitarianpolicy.pdf

www.oecd.org/dataoecd/54/57/37010997.pdf

Data notes

Although both relate to humanitarianexpenditure, FTS and DAC data are notcomparable. Reporting requirements anddefinitions are different. Some, all or none of aDAC donors official humanitarian expendituremight be included in the FTS figures. In someinstances, more might be reported inhumanitarian assistance through the FTS thanis included in OECD DAC data

Analysis of official humanitarian assistance isbased on OECD DAC data (DAC1, 2a and CRS),downloaded in April 2009. The data for 2008 ispreliminary and relates to bilateral humanitarianaid only. Full and final official data for 2008 willbe published by the DAC in December 2009

FTS data is published in real time on ReliefWeband was downloaded in April 2009.Supplementary data on CERF and pooled fundingwas downloaded from their respective sitesMay/June 2009

All data is expressed in current US$m unlessotherwisestated.Numbersmay varyduetorounding

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2006

2007

2008

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832

691 8

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934 1

,047 1

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US$743mThe UKs total officialhumanitarian expenditure, 2007

US$12Amount contributed by eachUK citizen to total officialhumanitarian assistance, 2007

-42.4%Change in the UKs totalofficial humanitarianexpenditure, 20062007

0.03%Share of UK GNI spent ontotal official humanitarianassistance 2007

The UKs total official humanitarian assistance expenditure 2000-2008

2006

2007

2008

480

464

686

The UKs humanitarian expenditure,reported through the FTS, 2006-2008

US$million(constant2007prices)

US$million(constant2007prices)

US$million

Outside the CAP46.3%

Top recipients of the UKs flash andconsolidated appeal funding, 2008

The UKs total official humanitarian assistance expenditure, 2007

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The UK was the most generousdonor to the CERF by volume inboth 2007 and 2008, contributingUS$84m and US$80m respectively.The UK was also the largestsupporter of pooled funding in2007 both by volume (US$148m)

and as a share of its total officialhumanitarian assistance. The UKfurther increased its contributionsto pooled funds in 2008 and wasagain the largest contributor,channelling US$174m to six ofthe seven pooled funds

Sudan was the largest

recipient of the UKsofficial humanitarianassistance in 2007 andalso its top UN CAPappealrecipient, accounting for19.9% of its reportedexpenditure through theFTS that year

Total official humanitarian share of the UKstotal ODA (excluding debt relief), 2007

TotalreportedthroughtheFTS

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Total official humanitarianassistance allocable by country

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Top recipient of the UKs flash andconsolidated appeal funding, 2007

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Sudan was the largest recipient of the UKscontributions to UN flash and consolidatedappeal funding in 2008, accounting for27.4% of the US$368m contributed by theUK inside the CAP(or 14.7% of the totalreported by the UK through the FTS)

Sudan was the largest recipient of the UKsofficial humanitarian assistance in 2007,accounting for 17.9% of the total allocableby country (including CERF)

The UK spent US$368m on 17consolidated and flash appeals in2008 this expenditure (referred toas inside the CAP) was equivalentto 55.5 % of its bilateral humanitarianexpenditure that year

Total official humanitarianexpenditure

Multilateral (EC)

Multilateral (UN agencies)

Bilateral (additional CRS-reported)

Bilateral

8%

Outside the CAP43.5%

Sudan Work Plan (HumanitarianAction component) 19.9%

Sudan 14.7%Democratic Republic of Congo 9.7%

Myanmar 7.6%Zimbabwe 6.3%

Somalia 4.4%Uganda 3.7%

Iraq 1.7%Kenya 1.6%

Haiti 1.0%Chad 0.8%

Other appeals inside the CAP2.1%

Top 10 recipients of the UKs total officialhumanitarian assistance expenditure, 2007

or 10% with additionalCRS reported amount

Multilateral (totally unearmarked) Bilateral (lightly to totally earmarked) Total

UN agencies/EC CERF Pooled funding Other

CHF ERF

US$m (DAC1 and DAC2a-reported) 391 84 137 11 120 743

% total 52.7% 11.3% 18.5% 1.4% 16.1% 100.0%

US$m (CRS and DAC2a-reported) 391 84 137 11 353 976

% total 40.1% 8.6% 14.1% 1.1% 36.2% 100.0%

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