Ecuador: IFRC Humanitarian Emergency Appeals and DREF Funding

This dataset tracks humanitarian funding requests and allocations for Ecuador, managed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). It includes records of Emergency Appeals for complex disasters and Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) actions for smaller-scale events. The data was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the frequency of Emergency Appeals versus DREF allocations in Ecuador
• Tracking humanitarian funding requirements for Ecuadorian disaster response
• Evaluating the temporal distribution of IFRC-led disaster interventions

Strengths

• Official primary source from the IFRC secretariat
• Covers both large-scale Emergency Appeals and smaller DREF operations
• Released under a CC-BY-IGO license

Limitations

• Unknown record count and column schema
• Geographically restricted to Ecuador
• Does not include non-IFRC humanitarian funding

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Administrative records of humanitarian appeals and fund allocations

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Ecuador