Sri Lanka Humanitarian Funding: Requirements and Flows from OCHA FTS

OCHA's Financial Tracking Service (FTS) provides this dataset of humanitarian funding flows and requirements for Sri Lanka, updated through March 2026. It documents financial contributions from donors to recipient organizations, specifically mapping funds against humanitarian response plans and COVID-19 initiatives.

Use Cases

• Analyzing donor contribution patterns for Sri Lanka humanitarian aid
• Comparing actual funding received against stated humanitarian response plan requirements
• Tracking financial flows specifically allocated for COVID-19 relief efforts

Strengths

• Official OCHA FTS data source
• Includes specific COVID-19 funding tags
• Maps funding directly against humanitarian response plan requirements

Limitations

• Relies on voluntary reporting which can lead to temporal lags
• Unknown total record count and specific column schema in metadata

Provenance

Source

OCHA Financial Tracking Service (FTS)

Collection Method

Reported by donor and recipient organizations

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Sri Lanka