Highlights
Donors contributed US$11 million towards humanitarian aid in the Caucasus and Central Asia in the first half of 2016
Kazakhstan is the only country that donated humanitarian aid outside the region in the reporting period
Tajikistan remains the largest recipient of humanitarian aid in the region
European Commission’s Department for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO) supported over 50 per cent of the total humanitarian aid to the region
Incoming contributions
From January to June 2016, donors contributed $11.3 million towards humanitarian aid in the Caucasus and Central Asia. This is a 40 per cent increase compared to the first half of 2015, when the total incoming humanitarian contributions amounted to $8 million.
The majority of the funding was contributed by ECHO, who contributed $6.5 million (57 per cent of all incoming aid).
Donors provided most of the assistance in cash (90 per cent vs 10 per cent in-kind), which is the most effective way for aid to reach affected people.
Donors also preferred directing the aid through multilateral channels (90 per cent multilaterally vs 10 per cent bilaterally).
The amount of the incoming in-kind and bilateral aid coincides with Kazakhstan’s contribution, which still tends to send in-kind assistance directly to affected governments (instead of multilateral cash assistance).
Tajikistan remained the largest recipient, comprising almost half of the total aid received by the region. Donors mostly supported disaster risk reduction, food, and shelter.