Italy: IFRC Humanitarian Emergency Appeals and DREF Funding

This dataset tracks humanitarian funding appeals and Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) allocations for Italy, managed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). It documents financial requests for both large-scale complex disasters and small-to-medium-sized events. The records are provided in CSV format and were last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing humanitarian funding trends for Italy based on appeal types
• Comparing the frequency of DREF allocations versus large-scale Emergency Appeals
• Tracking IFRC financial support for Italian Red Cross disaster response actions

Strengths

• Official administrative data from the IFRC secretariat
• Covers both major Emergency Appeals and smaller DREF allocations
• Released under CC-BY-IGO license for humanitarian research

Limitations

• Unknown record count and column structure
• Lack of specific temporal range for historical appeals in the metadata

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

Italy