Disaster Relief & Emergency Funding

The Commission anticipates that it will allocate £1,250,000 of its 2012 grant to disaster and emergency relief due to the ever-increasing demands for both natural disasters and the emergencies arising through human conflict.

In order to keep within its budget the Commission are limiting grants for individual projects up to £30,000 and a total spend of £90,000 on any one disaster.

Funding is only made available to aid agencies who are directly working in the disaster aid field or through DEC (the UK Disaster Emergency Commission).

Applications to be funded must meet the criteria that they are for the immediate relief of human suffering, proportional and appropriate to need, non-partisan and independent of political considerations. The Commission recognises immediate relief to be the provision of temporary shelter, clothing, heating, cooking items (eg. household kits), food and health provision (eg. water purifying tablets, medicines etc). Longer term proposals for the “provision of new or refurbishment of old” will fall within the remit of grant aid.

Whereas grant aid applications must be for specific identifiable projects, emergency and disaster relief funding is available for general use in dealing with a specified emergency or disaster or an identified part of the agency’s needs. JOAC recognises the need for flexibility in this area where priorities and conditions in the field can change rapidly but whenever possible, the Agency should identify what the funding will purchase.

For further information please download our Explanatory Booklet below.