Lao PDR: IFRC Humanitarian Appeals and Disaster Funding

This collection of humanitarian funding records for the Lao People's Democratic Republic is maintained by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). It tracks Emergency Appeals for complex disasters and Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) allocations for small to medium-sized events.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the ratio of DREF to Emergency Appeal funding for disasters in Lao PDR
• Tracking humanitarian response trends based on appeal launch dates
• Evaluating funding requirements for different disaster scales in the region

Strengths

• Official data sourced directly from the IFRC secretariat
• Covers both Emergency Appeals and DREF funding mechanisms
• Specific to the Lao PDR humanitarian context

Limitations

• Unknown record count and file size
• Specific column headers and schema are not provided in the source metadata
• Anomalous future-dated update timestamp (2026) in the source

Provenance

Source

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

Freshness

The metadata indicates a last update of March 2026, which may be a placeholder or system error.

Geography

Lao People's Democratic Republic