Samoa: IFRC Humanitarian Emergency Appeals and Funding Records

This dataset tracks humanitarian funding appeals and disaster response allocations for Samoa, managed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). It documents financial requests for large-scale Emergency Appeals and smaller-scale Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) actions. The data is provided in CSV format and reflects official administrative records from the world's largest humanitarian network.

Use Cases

• Analyze historical funding trends for disaster response within Samoa
• Compare financial requirements of Emergency Appeals versus DREF allocations
• Correlate humanitarian aid volume with specific disaster types in the Pacific region

Strengths

• Official data sourced directly from the IFRC secretariat
• Covers both long-term Emergency Appeals and short-term DREF funding
• Licensed under CC-BY-IGO for intergovernmental data sharing

Limitations

• Unknown record count and schema details
• Geographically restricted to Samoa, requiring joins with global datasets for regional analysis
• Lack of specific column-level metadata

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Administrative reporting of humanitarian appeals and funding distributions

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Samoa