Humanitarian Emergency Fund: annual report 2023-2024 - executive summary

Footnotes

1. Global Humanitarian Needs Overview 2023: https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/world/global-humanitarian-overview-2023-september-update-snapshot-30-september-2023

2. There are eight humanitarian agencies based in Scotland who make up the HEF Panel, along with an independent Chair: British Red Cross, Christian Aid, Islamic Relief, Mercy Corps, Oxfam, Save the Children, the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF), and Tearfund.

3. The DEC brings together 15 of the UK’s leading aid charities to raise funds quickly at times of humanitarian crises oversees. A small Secretariat of 23 permanent staff is responsible for launching appeals, the day-to-day running of the organisation, and the planning and execution of strategy objectives. The Scottish Government and the HEF Panel are supported by two part-time members of staff, specialising in programmes management, and communications.

4. Note: people reached figures do not include BRC or IRW’s Libya as they are yet to finish their projects.

5. Note: people reached figures do not include SCIAF’s Afghanistan totals as they are yet to finish their projects. These figures include Christian Aid only.

6. Note: people reached figures do not include BRC or IRW’s Libya or SCIAF’s Afghanistan totals as they are yet to finish their projects. Please note, these totals do not include people reached through DEC appeals.

7. Note: this figure is Stream 2 + additional funding only, not including DEC funding. All headline figures included are those of people directly reached through a HEF funded programme. This means that the totals include only direct people reached/implementation for goods and services under a HEF funded programme which are a person, group, or organisation that has been directly involved in a programme or project and has received a direct good or service, including but not limited to non-food items (NFIs), drinking water, temporary shelter, or participated in activities like vocational training, recreational activities, or attendance at safe spaces. This includes anyone who has participated in or been impacted by a HEF funded project and can be identified individually. In some instances, a whole household may be considered as direct beneficiaries, even if the benefit has been provided to a single individual within that household. Assistance is assumed to benefit the entire household, even when provided to a specific individual, such as in cases of cash or food assistance.

In some instances, disaggregated data by gender may not equal the total people reached within a programme, or in the total headline figures, due to members’ estimation of household sizes or lack of complete collected disaggregated data. Please allow for some variation in the figures.