Lebanon IFRC Humanitarian Appeals and Emergency Funding Records

This dataset tracks humanitarian funding requests and allocations for Lebanon managed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). It documents financial requirements for large-scale Emergency Appeals and smaller-scale Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) activations. The records are maintained by the IFRC secretariat and were last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the ratio of Emergency Appeals versus DREF allocations to determine disaster severity trends in Lebanon
• Tracking humanitarian funding requirements for Lebanon over time to support budget forecasting
• Identifying periods of high humanitarian activity by filtering records by appeal launch dates

Strengths

• Official data sourced directly from the IFRC secretariat
• Includes both Emergency Appeals and DREF allocation types
• Released under a CC-BY-IGO license for international intergovernmental use

Limitations

• Geographically restricted to Lebanon only
• Does not include humanitarian funding from organizations outside the IFRC network
• Column definitions and row counts are not provided in the primary metadata

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Administrative reporting from the IFRC secretariat

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Lebanon