In 2024–2025, the European Commission’s Directorate‑General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) contracted INSPIRE+/Groupe URD, working with IRMA, to provide technical assistance on disaster preparedness (DP) mapping in support of its Disaster Preparedness Guidance Note. The assignment focused on developing practical tools to understand how disaster preparedness is financed within DG ECHO and across other humanitarian and development donors, covering the Multiannual Financial Framework period 2021–2025.
Under Output 1, the team updated DG ECHO’s internal Disaster Preparedness (DP) mapping by analysing all actions that drew on the Disaster Preparedness Budget Line (DPBL) between 2021 and 2024. This work systematically merged data from EU’s EVA and related systems, classified partners, regions, sectors and priority types, and produced a reproducible methodology and dataset that show how DPBL funding is allocated across years, partners, sectors, regions and ECHO regional offices.
For Output 2, the team conducted a global mapping of disaster‑preparedness‑related investments by other humanitarian and development donors, based on a combination of quantitative analysis of FTS and OECD CRS data and qualitative review of key donor reports and interviews. The assignment set out to answer core questions on how donors define disaster preparedness, tag and track it in their systems, structure funding mechanisms, and provide guidance to implementing partners, with the intention of generating a dataset and analysis that can be compared with DG ECHO’s internal mapping. The findings illuminate the very unique role that DG ECHO plays to promote DP across the globe.
IRMA guided this assignment under INSPIRE+/Groupe URD. IRMA’s team for this assignment included Lezlie Moriniere and Ahmed Elmi.
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