Cuba: IFRC Emergency Appeals and Disaster Response Funding

This dataset tracks humanitarian funding requests and allocations for Cuba managed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). It documents Emergency Appeals for large-scale disasters and Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) entries for smaller crises, with the most recent update recorded in March 2026. The data is provided by the IFRC secretariat to support local Red Cross and Red Crescent actions.

Use Cases

• Analyzing historical funding trends for Cuban disaster response using Emergency Appeal records
• Comparing the scale of Emergency Appeals versus DREF allocations in the Caribbean region
• Auditing humanitarian aid distribution from the IFRC to local Red Cross actions in Cuba

Strengths

• Official administrative data from the IFRC secretariat
• Covers both large-scale Emergency Appeals and smaller DREF allocations
• Released under an open CC-BY-IGO license

Limitations

• Unknown record count and column schema
• Geographically restricted to Cuba
• Lack of sample data prevents immediate schema validation

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Administrative records from the IFRC secretariat

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Cuba