GHA Report 2011

“The latter part of the last decade has been underscored by deepening vulnerability in many developing countries associated with the global financial and food crises. Meanwhile, conflict and climate change-related hazards have remained a major threat to the lives and livelihoods of many.”

The international humanitarian response to these needs reached US$16.7 billion in 2010. If this preliminary, partial estimate proves to be accurate when full final data is available, it will have been the largest annual humanitarian response on record – higher even than in 2005, the year of the Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami and the South Asia (Kashmir) earthquake. However, while the contributions of governments outside of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and those of the private sector increased dramatically in 2010, it is not clear whether these actors will become regular donors in years when there are no major natural disasters.

This is the 2011 report by Global Humanitarian Assistance, a non-governmental organization which receives financial support from a number of donors. The GHA "team comprises researchers, analysts and policy advisors with practical field experience and backgrounds in development financing and reporting."

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