UN OCHA Financial Tracking Service (FTS) public API

UN OCHA Financial Tracking Service (FTS) public API

OCHA's Financial Tracking Service records reported humanitarian funding flows and exposes them through a keyless public API. The FTS public API page says: "The documentation on how to use the FTS API can be found here: https://api.hpc.tools/docs/v2/". The checked flow query returned incoming and outgoing flow counts and funding totals plus individual flow records with amount, original currency, exchange rate, dates, source and destination objects, status and keywords.

Coverage

Reported humanitarian funding by year, coordinated plan, country, global sector, donor and recipient organisation, plus pooled funds. FTS describes its own limits: "FTS is not an active research service; it is a recording service that depends on donors and recipient entities to convey humanitarian funding information to it." and "Due to the number of sources from which information is obtained, and variation in the quality of submitted information, there may be delays, omissions or inaccuracies in the database." History start, update frequency and delay: Not stated.

Verdict

A keyless JSON record of reported humanitarian funding flows by donor, recipient, response and amount. Terms of use: "Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 International license." Attribution is a condition, and FTS is specific about its shape: reuse is allowed "provided that suitable attribution of FTS as data source is given. Such attribution should cite the Financial Tracking Service (FTS), the publication date of the figures used and the relevant URL." Read the totals as reported funding: FTS says it "is not an active research service; it is a recording service that depends on donors and recipient entities to convey humanitarian funding information to it." The documented API host is api.hpc.tools, linked from the FTS public API page. Signal Lab links only.