Sierra Leone IFRC Humanitarian Appeals and Emergency Funding Records

This dataset tracks humanitarian funding for Sierra Leone through Emergency Appeals and Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) allocations managed by the IFRC. It provides administrative records of financial support for both large-scale complex disasters and smaller-scale emergency responses. The data is maintained by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing humanitarian funding trends in Sierra Leone by comparing Emergency Appeals versus DREF allocations
• Tracking the frequency of disasters requiring international financial assistance through appeal records
• Evaluating the scale of humanitarian response efforts based on funding disbursement types

Strengths

• Official data sourced directly from the IFRC secretariat
• Distinguishes between large-scale Emergency Appeals and smaller DREF allocations
• Machine-readable CSV format for automated ingestion

Limitations

• Lack of detailed column definitions or data dictionary
• Unknown record count prevents assessment of historical depth

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Administrative records of humanitarian appeals and fund disbursements

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Sierra Leone