Humanitarian needs – inter-agency appeals, funding and visibility
Last year’s report introduced a metric to understand the level of public attention for different crises by calculating the ratio of reports to web page visits. Using that same metric, it was possible to observe potential cases of donor fatigue and discrepancies with the widely held notion that funding follows public attention. As with last year, South Sudan ranked highly in attention and funding. However, this was not the case for Somalia. That country continued to rank highly in attention, but its funding level dropped by 2 percentage points. The attention level on Afghanistan dropped by 4 points, but its funding level increased by 2 percentage points. The overall trend shows that while public interest can sometimes be aligned with funding, there is no direct correlation between attention and inter-agency appeal funding. FIGURE 2
Country details
Funds requested/received
Awareness
Democratic Republic of the Congo Requested $832m Funded $393m
3,134
47% of requirement met Targeted people 4.8 million Funding per person $82
32,210 1:11
Djibouti Requested $74m Funded $21m
235
28% of requirement met Targeted people 0.25 million Funding per person $84
1,950 1:9
Gambia Requested $18m Funded $4m
1,624
283
24% of requirement met Targeted people 0.25 million Funding per person $18
1:6
Haiti Requested $157m Funded $90m 57% of requirement met Targeted people 0.4 million Funding per person $227
996
16,567 1:17
0:0 Up
Down Same New compared to 2013
Amount requested
Amount received
Reports published
Web page visits
Ratio of reports to visits
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