Libya IFRC Humanitarian Appeals: Emergency and DREF Funding Records

This dataset tracks humanitarian funding appeals and Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) allocations for Libya, managed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). It documents financial requests for both large-scale emergency responses and smaller-scale disaster interventions. The data is provided in CSV format and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the ratio of Emergency Appeals to DREF allocations for Libyan humanitarian crises
• Calculating total funding requirements for disaster response operations within the IFRC network in Libya
• Tracking the frequency of humanitarian interventions over time based on appeal launch dates

Strengths

• Official data from the IFRC, the world's largest humanitarian network
• Includes both Emergency Appeals and Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) records
• Licensed under CC-BY-IGO for open humanitarian research

Limitations

• Unknown record count and schema details
• Scope is limited to IFRC-specific actions and does not represent the entire humanitarian sector in Libya

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Administrative records from the IFRC secretariat

Freshness

The dataset is current with a recorded update date of 2026-03-13.

Geography

Libya