Nicaragua IFRC Humanitarian Appeals and Disaster Response Funding

This dataset tracks humanitarian funding requests and disaster responses in Nicaragua managed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). It includes records of Emergency Appeals for large-scale disasters and Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) allocations for smaller crises. The data is provided in CSV format and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing funding trends by comparing Emergency Appeal versus DREF allocation types
• Tracking the temporal frequency of humanitarian crises in Nicaragua using appeal launch dates
• Assessing the scale of international aid responses through targeted population or funding goal fields

Strengths

• Official data from the IFRC secretariat
• Includes both large-scale Emergency Appeals and smaller DREF allocations
• CC-BY-IGO licensed for humanitarian and research use

Limitations

• Unknown record count and schema details
• Restricted to IFRC-specific humanitarian actions
• Geographic scope is limited to Nicaragua

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Administrative records of humanitarian appeals and fund allocations

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Nicaragua