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Central Emergency Response Fund > Contributors > Pledged
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$17,000,000.00
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[2nd of 28]
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Funds commited to Tsunami aid
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$176,000,000.00 |
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[6th of 22]
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DEFINITION: Total amount of funds commited to Tsunami aid. Fund commitments refer to the amount of money governments have officially set aside for Tsunami relief. Funds pledged (click here to view the statistic) refers to the amount countries have publicly announced they would contribute. Hence, pledges can often fall far short of the final commitment. |
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: Central Emergency Response Fund
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Funds commited to Tsunami aid (per $ GDP)
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0.017 per $100 |
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[10th of 22]
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Funds committed to emergency Tsunami aid
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$115,000,000.00 |
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[4th of 22]
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DEFINITION: Amount of funds (in US Dollars) committed to emergency aid. Emergency aid commitments refers to the amount of money governments have officially contributed and have quickly dispersed for emergency Tsunami relief. This amount is taken out of the total aid commitment (click here to view the total Tsunami aid commitment statistic). |
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SOURCE: OECD, October, 2005. |
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Funds committed to emergency Tsunami aid (per $ GDP)
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0.112 per $1,000 |
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[11th of 22]
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Hurricane Katrina > International aid response
September 5, 35 military divers were poised to depart by air Sunday from Halifax and Esquimalt, B.C., for the New Orleans area.September 4, On the request from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Canada send thousands of beds, blankets, surgical gloves and dressings and other medical supplies. On September 2 the Government of Canada announced it was sending three warships along with a Coast Guard vessel, and three Sea King helicopters to the area. Over 1,000 personnel are involved in the operation, including engineers and navy divers. The Canadian Heavy Urban Search and Rescue out of Vancouver has been in Louisiana since September 1, due to security they started their mission on Sept 3. Ontario Hydro, Hydro-Québec, and Manitoba Hydro, along with other electrical utilities, have crews set to go to the affected areas. On September 2 Air Canada participated along with U.S. member airlines of the Air Transport Association, in a voluntary airline industry initiative to support rescue and relief operations. |
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DEFINITION: International response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster. |
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SOURCE: OECD, October 2005 |
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Tsunami > Foreign tourists missing
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13 |
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[26th of 37]
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DEFINITION: Number of foreign tourists visiting the tsunami hit areas who are not reachable, (as of Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2005 - 06:30 PM GMT). |
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SOURCE: Wikipedia, CNN |
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Tsunami > Foreigners death toll
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4 |
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[24th of 34]
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DEFINITION: The number of foreigners feared dead is in the range of thousands. Only 112 foreigners have been confirmed dead and the countrywise breakup of the persons identified is given below (as of Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2005 - 06:30 PM GMT). |
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SOURCE: BBC, Wikipedia, Norwegian ministry of foreign affairs, Reuters, US State Department, CBC News, http://www.stuff.co.nz/ and CNN |
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Tsunami > Funds pledged
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$344,960,000.00 |
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[6th of 37]
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DEFINITION: Funds pledged by the governments of developed countries for tsunami relief (as of September 30th 2005). The World Bank has pledged $250 million and the European Union $44 million. There have been significant amounts coming in from the UN and other aid agencies like IMF, UNDP, UNESCO, Red Cross, etc. which are not mentioned here. Private donations and collections from media campaigns are also high in many European countries, but have not been included here. |
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SOURCE: BBC, CNN, Wikipedia, Norwegian ministry of foreign affairs and French deputy foreign minister Renaud Muselier |
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Tsunami > Funds pledged (per $ GDP)
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0.337 per $1,000 |
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[10th of 37]
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Tsunami > Funds pledged by NGOs and public
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$143,470,000.00 |
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[6th of 24]
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DEFINITION: Funds pledged by the NGOs and public of developed countries for tsunami relief (as of Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2005 - 06:30 PM GMT). This list does not include corporate donations. |
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SOURCE: OECD,
Wikipedia, The Australian, BBC, Bloomberg, The Indian Express, CNN and The Reuters |
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Tsunami > Funds pledged by NGOs and public (per $ GDP)
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$140,244.00 per $1 billion |
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[13th of 24]
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Tsunami > International aid packages
Given $66m in government donations, plus at least $29m raised in private donations with a government commitment to match every dollar donated by the public. Ottawa has already placed a moratorium on debt from the affected countries. It is also deploying its highly-specialised Disaster Assistance Response Team to Sri Lanka. |
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DEFINITION: Countries around the globe have stepped forward with pledges of cash and assistance to the victims of the southern Asian earthquake and tsunami disaster. The following is a list of contributions pledged by countries, (as of Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2005 - 06:30 PM GMT) compiled from reports by Reuters bureaux and United Nations agencies. There are packages coming from international Aid agencies like the IMF, The Red Cross, UNEP, UNICEF and WHO. |
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SOURCE: Wikipedia, The Australian, BBC, Bloomberg, The Indian Express, CNN and The Reuters |
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Tsunami > Total aid package
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$500,450,000.00 |
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[4th of 37]
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DEFINITION: This is a chart of the total aid coming in from the following countries. It includes the funds pledged by the respective governments and the amounts collected by NGOs and the public (as of Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2005 - 06:30 PM GMT). Aid" is an ambiguous term that may cover a wide variety of methods, such as 'soft' loans or 'tied aid', where the money has to be spent buying goods ands services from the donating country. The numbers below also represent only the pledged contributions. Arguably, only funds that are actually transferred should be counted. For example, after the Bam earthquake in December 2003, the Iranian government received only USD 17.5 million of the USD one billion that was promised. |
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SOURCE: BBC, Alert net by Reuters, Sify news and The Age |
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Tsunami > Total aid package (per $ GDP)
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$489,198.00 per $1 billion |
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[12th of 36]
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Tsunami aid commitments as a percent of pledges
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51.5% |
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[12th of 16]
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DEFINITION: Percentages of Tsunami aid committed out of the aid originally pledged. For example, if a percentage on this statistic is above 50%, this means the country in question contributed over 50% of the amount of Tsunami aid it originally promised. |
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SOURCE: Wikipedia, The Australian, BBC, Bloomberg, The Indian Express, CNN and The Reuters |
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