Humanitarian Appeals · Share Funded · %

## What this measures

Funding reported against the year's coordinated humanitarian plans as a percentage of the money they required. Each year the UN and its partners publish coordinated response plans for crises (humanitarian response plans, flash appeals and regional refugee plans) with the money each needs. FTS adds up the requirements of the year's plans and the funding reported against them; together they form the Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO).

## Why it matters

It is the simplest view of the humanitarian funding gap: how much of what was asked for was met.

## How to read it

A year is the year the money is for (FTS's "usage year"), paid plus committed. The newest complete year keeps rising for months as late reports arrive; the current year is in the year-to-date series. The share can rise because funding rose or because requirements were cut, so read it with the two series it divides. From 2023 it matches the GHO snapshot on fts.unocha.org; for earlier years FTS deducts overlaps between regional and country plans, which its public API does not show, so Palanor's share can differ from the snapshot by up to about 3 points (2012: 60.1% against 62.9%).

## What it does not say

An average across plans: some crises are funded far better than others. FTS records what donors and agencies report to it; it does not estimate missing reports. Reporting is voluntary and some donors report late or not at all, so recent years rise for months as reports arrive. Commitments count as soon as they are made, before the money is paid.

## Source

UN OCHA Financial Tracking Service (FTS), public API api.hpc.tools (v1, no key). FTS site (fts.unocha.org): "Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 International license"; FTS datasets on HDX carry CC BY-IGO. Credit as FTS asks (fts.unocha.org/content/terms-use): "Palanor, based on Financial Tracking Service (FTS), [date], fts.unocha.org". Read weekly by /api/cron/ocha-fts-sync; Palanor loads the years from 2000.