1. Key points
No funding to Burkina Faso has been reported to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)’s Financial Tracking Service (FTS) since severe flooding began at the end of July.
Donors have committed/contributed US$36.3 million of international humanitarian assistance to Burkina Faso so far in 2015 – a decline of one third from the same point in 2014.
The European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO) is by far the largest humanitarian donor to Burkina Faso (US$20.1 million so far in 2015).
The UN-coordinated Burkina Faso Strategic Response Plan (SRP) 2015 requests US$98.8 million to meet the identified needs of 900,000 people. It is currently 26% funded at US$26.4 million.
The Sahel Regional Appeal 2015, which covers Burkina Faso, requests an additional US$10.3 million in funding for the Sahel region and is 15% funded.
Burkina Faso has received no Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) allocations in 2015 thus far. Funding from the CERF to Burkina Faso amounted to US$4.9 million in 2014.