No room for donor fatigue at Syria pledging conference in Kuwait

1. Oxfam's calculations are based on data from the UN's Financial Tracking Service, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund, ECHO (The European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Department), where possible bilateral contributions are confirmed with donors. Oxfam takes great care to ensure the information used in the analysis is as accurate as possible but cannot guarantee this. Figures were last checked on Friday January 10. GNI data comes from the World Bank’s 2012 GNI, PPP (current international $).

2. In 2013, reporting through the UN’s financial tracking service shows that 62.5 per cent of funding from the Syria response was channeled through UN agencies, 20.9 per cent through international NGOs and a little over 1 per cent was given as bi-lateral funding to governments. Of the funding provided to NGOs 98.34 per cent of the funding went to international NGOs and only 1.64 per cent to national NGOs.

3. Russia appears in the UN’s Financial Tracking Service (FTS) as one of the top 20 donors for the Syria Humanitarian Appeal in 2013. However, the figures in our fair share analysis looks at Russia’s total contribution to the combined Syria and Regional refugee response in 2012 and 2013, as well as ICRC and IFRC appeals and the national appeals for the governments of Jordan and Lebanon. The figures are taken from the most up to date data provided in the FTS. This figure is taken from the UN’s FTS website on 10 January 2014.

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