Humanitarian Emergency Fund: annual report 2024-2025

Footnotes

1 Disaster Emergency Committee Website

2 Additional funding outside of the £1 million provided by Scottish Government as outlined below.

3 Headline figures include people directly reached through a HEF funded programme. This means a person, group, or organisation that has been directly supported through delivery of goods or services which includes but is not limited to food, 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 can be identified individually. When cash or food is delivered, then the whole household can be considered as direct beneficiaries, with the assumption that all will benefit from the assistance provided to the head of the household.

4 El Niño is part of the natural climate phenomenon called the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and can be identified by warmer-than-usual sea surface temperatures in the tropical eastern Pacific. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64192508

5 HEF Panel member reach figures are shown as reach is reported directly in relation to the funding disbursed through the HEF mechanism to SCIAF and Mercy Corps. Regarding the DEC contribution, as this is a wider appeal, reach figures according to amount directly provided by the Scottish Government is not reported on.

6 Name changed to protect identity