Dominica: IFRC Humanitarian Appeals and Emergency Funding Records

Dominica humanitarian funding data from the IFRC tracks Emergency Appeals and Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) allocations for local disaster response. Maintained by the IFRC secretariat, the records document financial support for both large-scale complex disasters and smaller localized events. The data is provided in CSV format and is licensed under CC-BY-IGO.

Use Cases

• Analyze funding distribution between Emergency Appeals and DREF allocations
• Track the frequency of humanitarian interventions in Dominica over time
• Evaluate historical disaster response costs using funding totals

Strengths

• Official data from the IFRC secretariat
• Covers both large-scale Emergency Appeals and smaller DREF allocations
• Open CC-BY-IGO license for humanitarian research

Limitations

• Unknown record count and specific column schema
• Limited to IFRC-specific actions rather than all humanitarian aid in Dominica
• Lack of granular metadata on specific disaster types in the provided summary

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Administrative records from the IFRC secretariat

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Dominica