The CAF Disaster Monitor
CAF began monitoring the
giving trends of the UK public to disaster appeals five years ago.
The UK public has a history of being particularly supportive of
charities operating overseas, which makes it especially important
to understand this generosity.
Making a donation to a disaster appeal is of course spontaneous,
and people give for a wide variety of reasons. As such, this giving
is very different from the planned giving that we identify in
UK
Giving; and can be monitored in order to understand the
changing patterns of behaviour over time, which may be affected by
what type of disaster has occurred, which part of the world it
happened in, at what time of year, and what media coverage was
seen.
CAF has now monitored giving to four disaster appeals:
- 2004 Asian tsunami
- 2008 Burma cyclone
- 2009 Asia-Pacific cluster of disasters
- Samoan tsunami
- Indonesian earthquake
- flooding due to the cyclone in the Philippines and Vietnam
- 2010 Haiti earthquake
The information - in Microsoft PowerPoint slides - provides a
summary of the changing donor behaviour trends over time, and a
briefing paper giving more detail will be available to download
from this website in 2010.
Download a copy of the
summary trends (.pdf, 94KB) >>
Enquiries
If you have any questions about this report
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