electricsheepafrica/africa-ner-requirements-and-funding-data

Niger - Requirements and Funding Data

Publisher: OCHA Financial Tracking System (FTS) · Source: HDX · License: cc-by-igo · Updated: 2026-04-03

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Abstract

FTS publishes data on humanitarian funding flows as reported by donors and recipient organizations. It presents all humanitarian funding to a country and funding that is specifically reported or that can be specifically mapped against funding requirements stated in humanitarian response plans. The data comes from OCHA's Financial Tracking Service and is encoded as utf-8.

Each row in this dataset represents country-level aggregates. Temporal coverage is indicated by the startdate, enddate column(s). Geographic scope: NER.

Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by Electric Sheep Africa.

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Humanitarian and development data
Unit of observation	Country-level aggregates
Rows (total)	53
Columns	14 (6 numeric, 6 categorical, 2 datetime)
Train split	42 rows
Test split	10 rows
Geographic scope	NER
Publisher	OCHA Financial Tracking System (FTS)
HDX last updated	2026-04-03

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Variables

Geographic — countrycode (NER), typeid (range 4.0–2071.0), typename (Humanitarian response plan, Regional response plan, Humanitarian needs and response plan), year (range 2001.0–2029.0).

Temporal — startdate, enddate.

Outcome / Measurement — percentfunded (range 11.0–655.0).

Identifier / Metadata — id (range 185.0–1513.0), name (Not specified, Sahel Region Strategic Response Plan 2014, West Africa 2006), code (HNER26, HNER25, RBFAGNBMLIMRTNERSENTGO06), esa_source (HDX), esa_processed (2026-04-04).

Other — requirements (range 495905.0–675619589.0), funding (range 95778.0–384060264.0).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-ner-requirements-and-funding-data")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

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Schema

Column	Type	Null %	Range / Sample Values
countrycode	object	0.0%	NER
id	float64	54.7%	185.0 – 1513.0 (mean 616.875)
name	object	0.0%	Not specified, Sahel Region Strategic Response Plan 2014, West Africa 2006
code	object	54.7%	HNER26, HNER25, RBFAGNBMLIMRTNERSENTGO06
typeid	float64	54.7%	4.0 – 2071.0 (mean 479.0)
typename	object	54.7%	Humanitarian response plan, Regional response plan, Humanitarian needs and response plan
startdate	datetime64[ns]	54.7%
enddate	datetime64[ns]	54.7%
year	int64	0.0%	2001.0 – 2029.0 (mean 2015.1132)
requirements	float64	56.6%	495905.0 – 675619589.0 (mean 339479343.913)
funding	int64	0.0%	95778.0 – 384060264.0 (mean 111415526.5094)
percentfunded	float64	56.6%	11.0 – 655.0 (mean 86.5652)
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-04-04

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
id	185.0	1513.0	616.875	459.5
typeid	4.0	2071.0	479.0	110.5
year	2001.0	2029.0	2015.1132	2015.0
requirements	495905.0	675619589.0	339479343.913	355277959.0
funding	95778.0	384060264.0	111415526.5094	67857600.0
percentfunded	11.0	655.0	86.5652	63.0

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Curation

Raw data was downloaded from HDX via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snake_case. Common missing-value markers (N/A, null, none, -, unknown, no data, #N/A) were unified to NaN. 2 column(s) were cast from string to numeric or datetime based on parse-success rate (>85% threshold). The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

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Limitations

• Data originates from OCHA Financial Tracking System (FTS) and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• The following columns have >20% missing values and should be treated with caution in modelling: id, code, typeid, typename, startdate, enddate, requirements, percentfunded.
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_ner_requirements_and_funding_data,
  title     = {Niger - Requirements and Funding Data},
  author    = {OCHA Financial Tracking System (FTS)},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/ner-requirements-and-funding-data},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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