Costa Rica IFRC Emergency Appeals and Disaster Response Funding

This dataset documents humanitarian emergency appeals and Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) allocations for Costa Rica, published by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). It tracks financial and operational support for both large-scale disasters and smaller local emergencies, with the latest update recorded in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing historical disaster response trends in Costa Rica by filtering for specific appeal types like Emergency Appeals or DREF
• Quantifying humanitarian financial aid by aggregating funding amounts across different disaster events
• Evaluating the frequency of complex disasters requiring long-term recovery support versus short-term emergency interventions

Strengths

• Official data from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) secretariat
• Specific focus on Costa Rican national and local disaster response
• Released under the CC-BY-IGO license for open humanitarian use

Limitations

• Missing metadata regarding specific column names and total record count
• Geographic scope is restricted to Costa Rica, requiring joins with global datasets for regional analysis
• Potential for temporal gaps if small-scale local responses are not captured in the DREF system

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

administrative records

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Costa Rica