Latvia IFRC Humanitarian Appeals and Disaster Response Funding

This dataset tracks humanitarian funding and disaster response actions in Latvia, managed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). It documents Emergency Appeals for large-scale disasters and Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) allocations for small-to-medium events. The data is provided by the IFRC secretariat and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the frequency of Emergency Appeals versus DREF allocations in Latvia
• Tracking humanitarian funding trends over time using the update timestamps
• Cross-referencing Latvian disaster response records with the IFRC global dataset

Strengths

• Official data from the IFRC secretariat
• Includes both Emergency Appeals and DREF allocations
• Openly licensed under CC-BY-IGO for humanitarian use

Limitations

• Unknown record count and schema
• Geographically restricted to Latvia
• Lack of specific field-level descriptions in the source

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

Latvia