Guinea-Bissau IFRC Humanitarian Appeals and DREF Funding Data

This dataset tracks humanitarian funding for Guinea-Bissau through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) secretariat. It records financial allocations for both large-scale Emergency Appeals and smaller Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) actions as of March 2026. The data is provided in CSV format to support humanitarian transparency and disaster response analysis.

Use Cases

• Analyzing humanitarian funding trends in Guinea-Bissau by comparing Emergency Appeals versus DREF allocations
• Mapping historical disaster response intensity by correlating funding dates with known regional crises
• Evaluating the scale of IFRC financial support relative to specific disaster types reported in the country

Strengths

• Official data sourced directly from the IFRC secretariat
• Categorizes funding into Emergency Appeals and DREF types
• CC-BY-IGO license allows for broad humanitarian and research use

Limitations

• Unknown record count and schema details in the current metadata
• Geographic scope is restricted to Guinea-Bissau
• Does not include granular data on individual volunteer activities or local branch expenditures

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Administrative records from the IFRC secretariat tracking global humanitarian appeals.

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Guinea-Bissau