GHA Report 2009 Humanitarian donor profiles

Austria’s total official humanitarian assistance expenditure, 2007

Austria Multilateral (totally unearmarked)

UN agencies/EC
Bilateral (lightly to totally earmarked)
CERF Pooled funding Other
Total

Austria was the 19th largest DAC donor of humanitarian aid by volume in 2007. CHF ERF
Its bilateral and multilateral contributions totalled US$53 million – or 0.6% of the
US$m 38 0.4% 0 0 15 53
collective DAC total. Total official humanitarian expenditure fell by 16% between
% total 72.0% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 27.3% 100.0%
2006 and 2007 – but levels are still higher than before the ‘exceptional’ year of
2005. Austria provides over 70% of its total humanitarian assistance in CHFs in 2007 relate to DRC and Sudan. The ERFs included in the data reported here are CAR, Ethiopia, Iraq, Somalia and Zimbabwe

the form of totally unearmarked contributions through UN agencies and the

EC – one of the highest rates within the DAC. Total official humanitarian share of Austria’s
total ODA (excluding debt relief ), 2007
In 2007, total humanitarian assistance expenditure accounted for 6.0% of Austria’s Top 10 recipients of Austria’s total official Palestine/OPT was both
total ODA (excluding debt relief ) – a declining share of a growing aid budget over the humanitarian assistance expenditure, 2007 the largest recipient of
Austrian official
last two years.
Austria’s governmental aid is provided through the Austrian Development
Cooperation (ADC), which is coordinated by the Federal Ministry for European and
45

40
humanitarian assistance
in 2007 and its top UN
CAP appeal recipient,
US$53m

US$ million (constant 2007 prices)

International Affairs (MFA). The Austrian Development Agency (ADA) is in charge of 35 accounting for 25.0% of Austria’s total official
its reported expenditure
implementing the programmes and projects. ADC produced an international 30 through the FTS in 2007 humanitarian expenditure, 2007
humanitarian aid policy document in March 2009. Its humanitarian programme was 25

21
DAC peer reviewed at end of April 2009.
www.entwicklung.at/uploads/media/PD_International_humanitarian_aid.pdf 6%
20

15
US$6
www.entwicklung.at/en.html Amount contributed by

8
10
Imputed CERF
each Austrian citizen to

3
3
3
5

2
2
2
2
Total official humanitarian

1
0 assistance allocable by country total official humanitarian
assistance, 2007

Other countries
Palestinian Adm. Areas
Sudan
Lebanon
Sri Lanka
Indonesia
Uganda
Chad
Congo, Dem. Rep.
Somalia
Jordan
Austria's total official humanitarian assistance expenditure 2000-2008
Austria spent 72.0% of its
total official humanitarian
-16.0%
Total official humanitarian assistance expenditure in Change in Austria’s total
expenditure
totally unearmarked form
official humanitarian
74

80
through UN agencies in 2007.
US$ million (constant 2007 prices)

Multilateral (EC)
expenditure, 2006–2007
63

70 A further 0.8% was reported

Multilateral (UN agencies) in support of the CERF
53

60 Top recipient of Austria’s flash and

Bilateral
50 Palestine/OPT was the largest recipient
consolidated appeal funding, 2007
0.01%
40

of Austria’s official humanitarian

36

40
31

31

assistance in 2007, accounting for 15.7%

Share of Austrian GNI spent
24

30 of the total allocable by country Palestinian territory, occupied 25.0%

(including CERF) on total official humanitarian
20

10
assistance 2007
0 Outside the CAP
37.0%
2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008
(prelim)

Data notes
Austria spent US$4.9m on eight
consolidated and flash appeals in
Austria’s humanitarian expenditure, 2008 – this expenditure (referred to Although both relate to ‘humanitarian’
reported through the FTS, 2006-2008 as ‘inside the CAP’) was equivalent to expenditure, FTS and DAC data are not
32.7 % of its bilateral humanitarian comparable. Reporting requirements and
See Data notes definitions are different. Some, all or none of a
expenditure in 2008
15

16
DAC donor’s official humanitarian expenditure
14 might be included in the FTS figures. In some
Top recipients of Austria’s flash and
instances, more might be reported in
12 consolidated appeal funding, 2008 humanitarian assistance through the FTS than
is included in OECD DAC data
10
US$ million

Palestine/OPT was the largest recipient

8

8 Analysis of official humanitarian assistance is

of Austrian contributions to UN flash based on OECD DAC data (DAC1, 2a and CRS),
3 10 and consolidated appeal funding in
Palestinian territory, occupied 12.3%
6 Uganda 6.8% downloaded in April 2009. The data for 2008 is
5

2008, accounting for 38.2% of the Sudan Work Plan 5.1% preliminary and relates to bilateral humanitarian
4 US$4.9m that Austria spent ‘inside the Myanmar 2.4%
aid only. Full and final official data for 2008 will
3 CAP’ (or 12.3% of the total reported by
Southern African Region 1.9%
be published by the DAC in December 2009
2 Haiti 1.7%
2 5 5 Austria through the FTS) West Africa 1.0%
0 Total reported through the FTS Somalia 1.0% Outside the CAP FTS data is published in real time on ReliefWeb
67.9% and was downloaded in April 2009.
Other funding (‘outside the CAP’) Supplementary data on CERF and pooled funding
2006

2007

2008

was downloaded from their respective sites

UN flash and consolidated
appeal funding (‘inside the CAP’)
May/June 2009

All data is expressed in current US$m unless

otherwise stated. Numbers may vary due to rounding

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