Mauritius: IFRC Humanitarian Emergency Appeals and DREF Funding

Humanitarian funding requests and disaster response actions in Mauritius are tracked in this IFRC-managed dataset. It documents Emergency Appeals for complex disasters and Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) allocations for smaller crises. The data is provided by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing historical funding trends for disaster response in Mauritius using appeal amounts
• Categorizing disaster response by scale using the Emergency Appeals and DREF classification
• Identifying temporal patterns in humanitarian aid requests based on appeal launch dates

Strengths

• Official data from the IFRC secretariat
• Open CC-BY-IGO license for humanitarian use
• Standardized CSV format for tabular analysis

Limitations

• Unknown record count and schema details
• Limited to IFRC-specific actions rather than all NGO activity in Mauritius
• Geographically restricted to Mauritius

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Administrative records from humanitarian operations

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Mauritius