Sri Lanka IFRC Humanitarian Appeals and DREF Funding Records

This dataset tracks humanitarian funding appeals and Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) allocations for Sri Lanka, managed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). It documents financial requests for both complex disasters and small-to-medium scale emergencies as of March 2026. The data is provided in CSV format by the IFRC secretariat.

Use Cases

• Analyzing humanitarian funding trends for disaster response in Sri Lanka
• Comparing the frequency of DREF allocations against large-scale Emergency Appeals
• Tracking IFRC financial commitments to Sri Lankan humanitarian crises over time

Strengths

• Official data sourced directly from the IFRC secretariat
• Includes both major Emergency Appeals and DREF allocations
• Licensed under CC-BY-IGO for humanitarian and research use

Limitations

• Unknown record count and column schema
• Lack of descriptive metadata for specific funding categories

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Administrative records from the IFRC secretariat

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Sri Lanka