As a leading global humanitarian aid donor, the European Commission is committed to making clear which humanitarian emergencies it funds and how much. EU Member States are committed to ensure transparency of their humanitarian aid funding (Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/96).
FTS
The Financial Tracking System (FTS) is a centralised source of information on humanitarian funding flows, established in 1992 and managed by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). FTS also monitors the funding progress against humanitarian response plan. The European Commission’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations department (DG ECHO), alongside government donors, UN agencies, NGOs and other humanitarian actors, reports its funding information to FTS on a regular basis.
IATI
DG ECHO is a member of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), a global initiative to improve the transparency of development and humanitarian resources and their results. Funding information per project is available for consultation on the IATI portal.
Team Europe Explorer
The Team Europe Explorer is a public online platform allowing users to freely explore and visualise the EU, including DG ECHO, and its Member States’ spending of official development assistance (ODA) and Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD).
Before July 2025, DG ECHO data was also available on the European Emergency Disaster Response Information System (EDRIS), alongside contributions reported by Member States to this database managed by DG ECHO. EDRIS was discontinued to centralise information in the other existing online databases and ease consultation.