Humanitarian Recession Index: 2023 Update
Humanitarian Funding Forecast is updating its Underfunded Crisis Index. The Humanitarian Recession Index is a way to understand which humanitarian sectors are moving backwards in terms of funding. A ‘real recession’ is defined as two consecutive years of a growing funding gap for a sector. The Index helps us understand which sectors are failing to […]
Underfunded Crisis Index: 2023 Update
Humanitarian Funding Forecast is updating its Underfunded Crisis Index. The Underfunded Crisis Index is a way to measure and compare the underfunding of humanitarian crises. It can help us to understand which crises are underfunded compared to how much funding they require to meet needs, and therefore help to advocate for more funding to the […]
Launch: Cost of Doing Business Index
Humanitarian Funding Forecast is launching its third yearly index: the Cost of Doing Business Index. The index provides a way to understand which humanitarian contexts are more expensive to work in. The 2022 index shows that refugee responses are expensive, whilst flash appeals are cheap; Europe and MENA are expensive places to be, whilst Sub-Saharan […]
Launch: Humanitarian Recession Index
Humanitarian Funding Forecast is launching its secondly yearly index: the Humanitarian Recession Index. The index, based on this story from 2021, provides a way to see whether humanitarian sectors are receiving less funding relative to need. The 2022 index shows that 10 out of 16 humanitarian sectors are in a recession – that is, they […]
Launch: Underfunded Crisis Index
Humanitarian Funding Forecast is launching its first yearly index: the Underfunded Crisis Index. The index, based on this story from 2021, aims to measure which recurring humanitarian crises are consistently underfunded. The 2022 index shows that 5 contexts are chronically underfunded (<40%). This includes three regional refugee response plans (DR Congo, Burundi, and South Sudan), […]