Benin: IFRC Humanitarian Emergency Appeals and DREF Funding

This dataset tracks humanitarian funding requests and disaster response actions in Benin, managed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). It documents both large-scale Emergency Appeals for complex disasters and smaller-scale Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) allocations. The records are maintained by the IFRC secretariat and were last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the ratio of DREF to Emergency Appeal funding for Benin disasters
• Tracking the frequency of humanitarian interventions over time in Benin
• Correlating funding amounts with specific disaster types reported by the IFRC

Strengths

• Primary source data from the world's largest humanitarian network
• Covers both major Emergency Appeals and smaller DREF responses
• Standardized CSV format for interoperability
• Openly licensed under CC-BY-IGO for international organizational use

Limitations

• Unknown record count and specific schema details
• Lack of granular column descriptions in the source metadata
• Potential for temporal gaps if reporting from local societies is delayed

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Administrative records from humanitarian operations and funding requests

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026, reflecting recent humanitarian actions.

Geography

Benin