CERF Allocations: Global Humanitarian Project Funding with HXL Tags

CERF Allocations tracks project-level funding distributed by OCHA's Central Emergency Response Fund for rapid response and underfunded humanitarian crises. Maintained by the Central Emergency Response Fund, the dataset provides machine-readable records in CSV and JSON formats as of March 2026.

Use Cases

• Comparing funding amounts between rapid response and underfunded emergency categories
• Integrating humanitarian financial data into HXL-compliant dashboards using standardized tags
• Mapping global emergency response priorities based on project-level allocation records

Strengths

• Standardized using Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL) tags
• Official data from OCHA's Central Emergency Response Fund
• Available in both CSV and JSON machine-readable formats

Limitations

• Lack of explicit column definitions in the source metadata
• Unknown total record count and historical depth

Provenance

Source

Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF)

Collection Method

administrative records

Freshness

Updated as recently as March 2026.

Geography

global