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Humanitarian funding analysis: Sri Lanka flooding - 7 January 2015

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  1. Summary

• Sweden was the top donor to Sri Lanka in 2014, contributing US$2.3 million.

• Since 2012, Germany has provided the most humanitarian assistance in response to flooding in Sri Lanka, allocating US$312,173, followed by Japan (US$260,000) and the EC’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO) (US$259,067).

• The Sri Lankan government has allocated US$3.8 million to the current flood response.

• No international humanitarian assistance has been reported for Sri Lanka since July 2014.

  1. Recent humanitarian funding to Sri Lanka

Humanitarian assistance to Sri Lanka reached US$8.1 million in 2014, according to data from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)’s Financial Tracking Service (FTS). The top donors were Sweden (US$2.3 million), the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) (US$2.1 million) and Japan (US$1.6 million), who provided 74% of all funding last year between them.