Afghanistan 2024 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan: Mid-year Response Gap Analysis of Financing, Achievements and Response Challenges (January - June 2024)

About

This analysis is based on information from the Afghanistan Inter-Cluster Coordination Team (ICCT) and examines the humanitarian response over the first half of 2024 (January to June), looking at both reach and gaps, including challenges partners are experiencing in implementing their activities.

Overview

Following the ICCT Response Monitoring workshops held on 21 January and 30 April, the ICCT agreed to conduct a quarterly response gaps analysis to strengthen collective response monitoring under the 2024 Humanitarian Needs & Response Plan (HNRP). As part of this exercise, the ICCT agreed to identify districts where clusters deviate from HNRP targets – both in terms of under- or overreach – and to explore the reasons and causes for these deviations so that adjustments or course corrections could be made to the response in a more timely manner.
To support improved understanding of reach, the ICCT also made some changes to its routine monthly monitoring:

a. shifting analysis to a lower administrative level (from provincial to district) to provide greater granularity over asistance provided;

b. developing an inter-sectoral reach calculation to reduce ongoing discrepancies between the total number of people reached – what is often referred to as overall or unique cumulative reach – and funding received;

c. adding separate lines for food assistance and emergency agricultural support under the Food Security and Agriculture Cluster (FSAC) section of the Response Overview dashboard to highlight the extent to which food assistance continues to drive overall reach and to reinforce the need to look beyond just the total figures to ensure the millions of people who do not have their needs fully covered, or who remain in need of other types of assistance, are not overlooked;

d. integrating cluster reach methodologies into the monthly response overview dashboard to provide greater clarity on how reach is calculated across sectors and, since April, adding a narrative component to the dashboard which allows clusters the opportunity to offer detailed explanations of their reach data and any programmatic adjustments they had made in light of funding or other operational constraints.