admin July 19th, 2010
Total humanitarian aid worldwide was $15.1 billion in 2009 according to a new report by Global Humanitarian Assistance. In Part 1 we looked at how much was given. In this part we are going to look at where the money goes.
By region, in 2008, it went largely to Africa (52% – $5.9 billion) and Asia (42% – $4.8 billion). And six of the top ten recipient countries in 2008 were African – Sudan (first place), Ethiopia (fourth), Somalia (fifth), DRC (sixth), Zimbabwe (ninth) and Kenya (tenth). Even tenth placed Kenya received $304 million. Sudan got $1.4 billion.
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Tags: Africa, Asia, DRC, Ethiopia, Haiti, Kenya, NGOs, Red Cross, Somalia, Sudan, Zimbabwe
admin July 19th, 2010
Total humanitarian aid worldwide fell by 11% to $15.1 billion in 2009 according to a new analysis of the available data by Global Humanitarian Assistance, a monitoring service provided by Development Initiatives. The 2008 total was $16.9 billion, a record high. But 2009’s total was the second highest on record.
Humanitarian aid from donors reporting to the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) has grown massively through the 2000s, from $5.5 billion in 2000 to an estimated $13.3 billion in 2009 – a growth of 142% across the decade.
The DAC represents the OECD countries and speaks for well over 90% of all humanitarian aid. But overall 112 countries gave humanitarian aid in 2009 – many of them being recipients as well as donors.
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Tags: Africa, Asia, Humanitarian assistance, NGOs, Red Cross, UN
admin October 16th, 2009
If you haven’t yet spent any time with TED, then you really should. It is a fascinating and fantastic repository of 20 minute talks about great ideas. And many of them are beautifully presented.
Here, for example, is Hans Rosling from 2006. He has the most extraordinary way of presenting statistics that show the way that the world has developed over the past forty years.
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Tags: Africa, Asia, development, health, jobs, TED