Financial Tracking Service

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Financial Tracking Service

• Field Presentation
• 2004

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What is the FTS?
The Financial Tracking Service is an on-line,
real-time, searchable database of humanitarian
funding needs and contributions. It serves to
improve resource allocation decisions and
advocacy, by clearly indicating to what extent
populations in crisis receive humanitarian aid,
and in what proportion to needs. The FTS offers
a series of analytical tables that show
humanitarian aid flows to specific crises, and
also allows users to produce custom tables on
demand. It is managed by OCHA and located on
www.reliefweb.int/fts.
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Where does FTS get its data?
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Update on humanitarian finance situation for
countries in Great Lakes Region
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1. Tanzania
Humanitarian funding (CAPs) in region
Multi-sector predominates in both requirements
and contributions, because it is mostly an appeal
for multi-sectoral care of refugees in Tanzania.
HCR has 3/4 of the appeals requirements and 95
of its contributions to date. Other sectors have
attracted nearly no contributions.
Total requirements 38,766,187
Contributions 10,717,985 Proportion funded
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2. Uganda
Humanitarian funding (CAPs) in region
In financial terms, mostly a food appeal--perhaps
because other operations requiring a more
constant presence on the ground are not possible
in the worst-affected areas. Unusually, health
requirements are relatively small probably
because there are no NGO projects in the appeal
and they, rather than UN agencies, likely provide
whatever emergency health services are possible
in the north.
Total requirements 112,380,013
Contributions 40,641,278 Proportion
funded 36
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3. Sudan
Humanitarian funding (CAPs) in region
Requirements (and contributions) have nearly
doubled in recent months because of Darfur. Food
dwarfs all other sectors, in both requirements
and contributions. A large pot of unattributed
contributions (loosely earmarked), more than
earmarked to any one sector.
Total requirements 763,575,150 Contributions
188,941,246 Proportion funded 25
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4. Burundi
Humanitarian funding (CAPs) in region
Some distribution across sectors. Health is
dramatically underfunded. Agriculture,
unusually, is doing well. Some unattributed is
available to compensate in other sectors.
Total requirements 112,020,149
Contributions 21,249,367 Proportion
funded 19
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5. Great Lakes Regional Appeal
Humanitarian funding (CAPs) in region
Very much a food appeal, also with some
components of coordination and multi-sector.
Contributions follow suit.
Total requirements 83,961,588
Contributions 31,529,859 Proportion
funded 38
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6. Eritrea
Humanitarian funding (CAPs) in region
No significant contributions outside of food and
multi-sector. Unattributed may compensate
slightly.
Total requirements 117,636,804
Contributions 32,563,407 Proportion
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7. Somalia
Humanitarian funding (CAPs) in region
Unusually even distribution of contributions
across sectors. Food is no greater in dollar
terms, and much lesser in proportion to
requirements.
Total requirements 119,126,299
Contributions 29,413,984 Proportion
funded 25
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8. Total Funding Requirements and Contributions
to Date for the Consolidated Appeals in Response
to the Humanitarian Crisis in Darfur (Sudan) and
Chad 2004, by Sector (as of 08 July 2004)
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9. Humanitarian contributions to Ethiopia in
2004 (as of 10 July 2004)
 
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10. D.R. Congo (as of 20 July 2004)
Total requirements 160,042,056
Contributions 56,138,672 Proportion funded
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Introduction to FTS Automatic Tables
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Headline issues of humanitarian finance ( how
FTS can illuminate them)

• 1. Equity across crises (funding in proportion
  to need) 2004 CAPs and Flash Appeals

 
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Comment What CNN effect?
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2. Timing of contributions
Headline issues (contd)
 
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3. Funding differences between sectors
Headline issues (contd)
 
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Funding differences between sectors (contd)
 
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4. CAP funding worldwide is down in comparison to
this time last year
Headline issues (contd)
 
and we dont know why.
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What FTS can do for field offices

• Advocacy Financial tracking provides raw
  material for advocacy, by identifying crises with
  the greatest resource needs, highlighting
  under-funded crises and sectors, monitoring
  changes in resource needs in evolving situations,
  and tracking the timeliness of donor response to
  urgent needs. Financial tracking also gives
  credit where it is due.

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What FTS can do for field offices (contd)

• Coordination FTS offers information at a glance
  on which implementing organizations and donors
  are working in which crises and sectors, and to
  what scale. Organizations can therefore pool
  information via FTS.

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What FTS can do for field offices (contd)

• Publicising project proposals The FTS shows not
  only contributions, but also proposed projects
  (in CAPs) with their budgets and unfunded
  balances. Field offices can therefore use the
  FTS to publicise humanitarian projects and draw
  attention to funding needs.

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What FTS can do for field offices (contd)

• Donor visibility The FTS publicises donor
  contributions and the actions of their partners
  in various crises, which donors appreciate, and
  which may help them maintain support in their
  countries for humanitarian aid.

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What field offices can do for FTS

• Stimulate reporting! FTS is not telepathic it
  can only post what is reported to it. Regular
  reporting mechanisms exist, but they are
  imperfect (especially with UNDP and NGOs).
  Please check FTS tables to ensure accuracy,
  and...
• Inform FTS of errors or omissions e-mail
  fts_at_reliefweb.int.
• Make suggestions for improving FTS. FTS is
  currently undertaking a series of improvements to
  make data more complete and accessible to users.
  All stakeholders should feel free to suggest
  improvements.

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FTS Clinic
How to get the info you need
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How to enhance sharing of information on
humanitarian aid flows in order to improve
decision making

• Help FTS to fill in the gaps. (Known gaps
  include most NGO funding, especially their
  private funds use of unearmarked funds by UN
  agencies and NGOs and some regular donor
  contributions, especially ECHO, because they only
  report lump-sum decisions to FTS.)

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Thanks Merci Asante sana

• Robert Smith
• Manager, Financial Tracking Service
• CAP Section, RCB, OCHA-Geneva
• Tel. [phone] / Fax [phone]
• Room 301-5, Palais des Nations, 1211 Geneva 10,
  Switzerland
• e-mail smith50_at_un.org
• FTS www.reliefweb.int/fts E-mail
  fts_at_reliefweb.int