The Financial Tracking System (FTS) is a centralized source of curated, continuously updated, fully downloadable data and information on humanitarian funding flows.  Government donors, UN-administered funds, UN agencies, NGOs and other humanitarian actors exchange data and information with FTS in order to provide: a timely and continuously updated picture of funding flows into existing humanitarian operations; funding progress against humanitarian response plan and related appeal requirements and information on existing gaps; visibility on who is funding what across humanitarian operations

FTS collects, curates and publishes all data reported to it by designated focal points within organizations. This is known as “total reported funding.” Some of this funding may contribute to collectively agreed objectives, activities and projects within Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs) while other data may fall outside existing appeals.