Data sources

The 1540 Assistance Database was developed by the 1540 Committee pursuant to UNSC Resolution 1540 (2004), for the purpose of providing additional information on the national implementation of regulations and measures related to the resolution. The 1540 Assistance Database and information about it are available online at https://1540assistance.stimson.org/project/.

A compendium of projects related to Article X of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention was submitted by Canada, Denmark, the European Union, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. These member countries of the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction are mutually committed to implementing global projects to combat WMD-related terrorism and proliferation. The compendium includes detailed information on Article X-relevant projects implemented and/or funded by GP members since December 2016.

Occasionally, Member States of the BWC submit national papers describing capacity building efforts for health security. Data relevant from these papers are included in GHS Tracking.

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is a partnership created in 2017 to bring together global stakeholders to develop vaccines with the goal of stopping future pandemics. During the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2019, it operated as a facilitator in the COVAX Marketplace. CEPI announces funding calls for vaccine candidate development and coordinates partnerships to develop specific vaccines as needed. CEPI releases annual progress reports that include actual and planned donor funding amounts by year. More information about CEPI is available at https://cepi.net/.

The Ebola Recovery Tracking Initiative tracks official development assistance towards Ebola recovery efforts in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Mano River Union. The initiative is a partnership between the governments of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the United Nations Office of the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Community Based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The Ebola Recovery Tracking Initiative is available online at: https://ebolarecovery.org/.

The EIU’s COVID-19 Health Funding Tracker provides data on the flow of money towards the development, production, and equitable access to new COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines. The data are publicly available online at https://covidfunding.eiu.com/explore.

AidData’s Global Chinese Official Finance Dataset tracks known projects financed by China in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Central and Eastern Europe from 2000-2014. The data are publicly available online at https://www.aiddata.org/data/chinese-global-official-finance-dataset.

The Global Health Centre Working Paper No. 18, "Investing for a Rainy Day: Challenges in Financing National Preparedness for Outbreaks," authored by Suerie Moon and Rai Vaidya, identifies international investments related to national outbreak preparedness from a range of funders. The paper is publicly available online at https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/296613/files/wp_0018_v3.pdf.

The Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction is a G7-led, international partnership created in 2002 that aims to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Their 2019 Annual Project Report details the contributions of countries to aid these efforts in other partner countries and regions.

The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) is a public, voluntary registry of international aid funding initiatives, and aggregates data shared by over 600 organizations. More information and data are available at https://iatistandard.org/.

The Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) Office Gateway provides access to project summaries, budgets, and expenditure information for a range of efforts that are funded by UN entities, including specific event responses such as to the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Humanitarian Fund, and others. More information about the MPTF can be found at https://ebolaresponse.un.org/donate, and the Gateway data can be accessed at http://mptf.undp.org/.

The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) Commitment Tracker was developed to track global health security funding commitments and to foster accountability for existing commitments. The NTI Commitment Tracker tracks financial commitments as well as commitments to complete or support the JEE process, advance GHSA action packages, or to participate in other activities to build global health security.

Database of Open Philanthropy recommended grants with amounts, focus areas, dates, descriptions, and progress updates.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Creditor Reporting System (CRS) is a database of development assistance between countries.

In February of 2018, the United States published its second annual report on progress and impact from U.S. investment in the GHSA, and in August of 2019, the third annual report was published. Where specific funders, recipients, and funding transactions were referenced in these reports, data were incorporated into GHS Tracking. The 2018 US White House GHSA Progress and Impact Report is available online at https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/healthprotection/resources/pdf/GHSA-Report-_Feb-2018.pdf and the 2019 US White House GHSA Progress and Impact report is available online at https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/GHSAR-2019_final.pdf.

The WHO ACT-Accelerator (ACT-A) Commitment Tracker reports pledges in support of ACT-A Pillar budgets and co-convening agencies for COVID-19 response. The ACT-A Commitment Tracker defines cumulative amounts committed by donor, recipient, and Pillar for ACT-A financial requirements each budget year. The ACT-A Commitment does not track disbursements. Additional information about commitments made is available online at https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/access-to-covid-19-tools-tracker.

Project-level data for contributions from stakeholders to the World Health Organization (WHO) for COVID-19. The website also displays WHO COVID-19 donors and partners with contribution totals.

The WHO Contingency Fund for Emergencies (CFE) was established by the World Health Assembly in 2015 as a means to respond quickly and effectively to disease outbreaks and humanitarian crises. Information about commitments made to the CFE in 2020 is available online at https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/342236. Additional data on contributions to and allocations from the fund from 2015 to present are found online at https://www.who.int/emergencies/funding/contingency-fund-for-emergencies/contributions-and-allocations.

The World Bank Ebola Financing Research Brief provides information about World Bank contributions for the current and past Ebola outbreaks and overall pandemic preparedness.

World Bank Projects & Operations provides access to basic information on all of the World Bank's lending projects from 1947 to the present. The dataset includes basic information such as the project title, task manager, country, project ID, sector, themes, commitment amount, product line, and financing. It also provides links to publicly disclosed online documents.

Data from multiple philanthropic databases, and press releases are incorporated into GHS Tracking, including data from the Open Philanthropy Grant Database available at https://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants.

Data from multiple private sector websites and press releases are incorporated into GHS Tracking.

In addition to the above data sources, we also receive and review peer reviewed publications describing both financial and in-kind support from countries and organizations.

Data from multiple media statements, including social media, are incorporated into GHS Tracking.

In addition to the above data sources, we also receive data directly from donor countries.