Colombia IFRC Humanitarian Appeals and Disaster Response Funding

This dataset tracks humanitarian funding appeals and Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) allocations for Colombia, managed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). It provides records of financial requests and responses for both large-scale complex disasters and smaller localized emergencies within the country.

Use Cases

• Analyzing historical funding trends for Colombian disasters using appeal amounts and dates
• Comparing DREF allocations versus large-scale Emergency Appeals to categorize disaster severity
• Mapping humanitarian aid distribution by cross-referencing appeal descriptions with regional disaster events

Strengths

• Sourced directly from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
• Released under the CC-BY-IGO license for open humanitarian use
• Provides localized data specifically for the Colombian geographic context

Limitations

• The specific schema and column definitions are not provided in the source metadata
• Unknown record count makes it difficult to assess the historical depth of the data

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Administrative records from humanitarian funding requests

Freshness

The metadata indicates a last updated date in 2026, which may suggest a synchronization error or placeholder in the source system.

Geography

Colombia