Belize: IFRC Humanitarian Emergency Appeals and DREF Funding

Managed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), this dataset tracks humanitarian funding requests for Belize through Emergency Appeals and the Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF). It provides a record of financial support for both large-scale complex disasters and medium-sized emergencies as of March 2026.

Use Cases

• Quantifying the ratio of DREF allocations to large-scale Emergency Appeals in Belize
• Analyzing the frequency of humanitarian funding requests for Belize over time
• Correlating IFRC appeal types with historical disaster events in the region

Strengths

• Official administrative data from the world’s largest humanitarian network
• Covers two distinct funding mechanisms: Emergency Appeals and DREF
• CC-BY-IGO license allows for intergovernmental and humanitarian reuse

Limitations

• Unknown record count and column structure due to lack of sample data
• Metadata contains a future-dated update timestamp (2026), suggesting potential system errors in source reporting

Provenance

Source

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

Collection Method

Administrative records from humanitarian operations

Freshness

Last updated March 2026 according to source metadata.

Geography

Belize