GHA Report 2009 Humanitarian donor profiles

Japan’s total official humanitarian assistance expenditure, 2007

Japan Multilateral (totally unearmarked)

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

Japan was the 18th largest DAC donor of humanitarian aid by volume in 2007. CHF ERF
Its bilateral and multilateral contributions totalled US$116 million – or 1.3% of
US$m 21 0 0 0 95 116
the collective DAC total. Total humanitarian assistance expenditure fell by 40.1%
% total 18.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 82.0% 100.0%
between 2006 and 2007, but preliminary DAC data suggests that bilateral
contributions alone could rise to US$213 million in 2008. CHFs in 2007 relate to DRC and Sudan. The ERFs included in the data reported here are CAR, Ethiopia, Iraq, Somalia and Zimbabwe

In 2007, total humanitarian assistance expenditure accounted for 1.9% of Japan’s

total ODA (excluding debt relief ). Apart from 2004 and 2005, when the humanitarian Total official humanitarian share of Japan’s
total ODA (excluding debt relief ), 2007
aid share of ODA exceeded 9%, this figure has been fairly constant since 1990. Top 10 recipients of Japan’s total official Sudan was the second largest
humanitarian assistance expenditure, 2007 recipient of Japanese official
In 2005 the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched an ODA initiative on humanitarian assistance in
disaster risk reduction. Japan’s conflict-related humanitarian assistance is managed
by two different agencies, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA). Japan's policies specifically recognise the links between
2007 but its top UN CAP appeal
recipient, accounting for 20.4%
of Japan’s reported expenditure
US$116m

US$ million (constant 2007 prices)

vulnerability and disasters.
through the FTS in 2007 Japan’s total official
30 humanitarian expenditure, 2007

26
Japan’s development assistance programme (including the humanitarian
component) is scheduled to be DAC peer reviewed in December 2009. Its last 25

21
peer review was in 2004. 20
US$1

15
www.mofa.go.jp/policy/un/conf0501-2.pdf 2% 15
Amount contributed by each

9
www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/63/32285814.pdf 10

7
Imputed CERF
www.mofa.go.jp/policy/oda/index.html Japanese citizen to total official

3
3

3
3
5

2
2
Total official humanitarian
0
assistance allocable by country humanitarian assistance, 2007

Other countries
Iraq
Sudan
Congo, Dem. Rep.
Chad
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Palestinian Adm. Areas
Pakistan
Nepal
Burundi
Japan’s total official humanitarian assistance expenditure 2000-2008 -40.1%
Japan did not allocate any
funding to the CERF in 2007
Change in Japan’s total official
Total official humanitarian but US$2m in 2008 humanitarian expenditure,
expenditure
737

2006–2007
713

800
Multilateral (UN agencies)
US$ million (constant 2007 prices)

700
Bilateral
600

500
Iraq was the largest recipient of Japan’s
Top recipient of Japan’s flash and
consolidated appeal funding, 2007 0.003%
Share of Japanese GNI spent
312

286

400 official humanitarian assistance in 2007,

accounting for 22.1% of the total allocable
222

Sudan Work Plan (Humanitarian on total official humanitarian

194

300
181

by country (including CERF) Action component) 20.4%

assistance 2007
116

200

100

0 Outside the CAP

35.5%
2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008
(prelim)

Data notes
Japan spent US$173m on 16 consolidated
and flash appeals in 2008 – this
Japan’s humanitarian expenditure, expenditure (referred to as ‘inside Although both relate to ‘humanitarian’
reported through the FTS, 2006-2008 the CAP’) was equivalent to 72.1% of expenditure, FTS and DAC data are not
its bilateral humanitarian expenditure comparable. Reporting requirements and
See Data notes definitions are different. Some, all or none of a
in 2008
DAC donor’s official humanitarian expenditure
318

350 might be included in the FTS figures. In some

Top recipients of Japan’s flash and
instances, more might be reported in
300 consolidated appeal funding, 2008 humanitarian assistance through the FTS than
226

218

is included in OECD DAC data

250
145 Sudan was the largest recipient of
US$ million

200 Analysis of official humanitarian assistance is

Japanese contributions to UN flash and
116 77 consolidated appeal funding in 2008,
Sudan Work Plan 21.6% based on OECD DAC data (DAC1, 2a and CRS),
150 Democratic Republic of Congo 7.0% downloaded in April 2009. The data for 2008 is
accounting for 39.7% of US$173m funding Uganda 5.6% preliminary and relates to bilateral humanitarian
100 ‘inside the CAP’ (or 21.6% of the total Somalia 4.0%
aid only. Full and final official data for 2008 will
141 173 reported by Japan through the FTS)
Chad 3.9%
be published by the DAC in December 2009
50 Myanmar 2.2%
110 Central African Republic 2.0%
0 Total reported through the FTS Zimbabwe 1.7% Outside the CAP FTS data is published in real time on ReliefWeb
Kenya 1.3% 45.6% and was downloaded in April 2009.
2006

2007

2008

Other funding (‘outside the CAP’) Côte d'Ivoire 1.2% Supplementary data on CERF and pooled funding
Other appeals inside the CAP 3.9%
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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