Afghanistan: Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2025, Response Overview (1 January - 31 January 2025)

During January 2025, humanitarian partners reached 5.9 million people with at least one form of humanitarian assistance, including up to 0.4 million people with three different types of sectoral support. Although this represents a broad reach in absolute terms, 96 per cent (5.7 million) of the people reached overall received food assistance, highlighting the extent to which food assistance continues to drive overall response figures while also overshadowing the millions of people who will require multiple rounds of assistance throughout the year to ensure their needs are adequately met.
The response was enabled by a combination of new funding as of 30 January 2025 (US$85.5 million, 3.5 per cent of requirements) and funds carried over from 2024. However, $2.33 billion (96 per cent) of the $2.42 billion required to deliver humanitarian assistance remained unfunded as of end of January. Based on global agreements with OCHA, some agencies report their funding updates to FTS in the second quarter of the year. As a result, funding levels will be more accurately reflected in the response monitoring overviews during this period. Additionally, the US funding cuts announced in January will take some time to be reflected on FTS.
Partners will continue to focus efforts on providing more integrated support in line with the nature and scale of multisectoral needs that is informed by a biannual gaps analysis exercise, enhanced inter-sectoral reach calculations and greater transparency in reach data, including disaggregation of food distribution by rounds of assistance.
In the context of continued humanitarian needs and operational complexity, the humanitarian community’s ability to continue to stay and deliver life-saving assistance will be contingent on sufficient and flexible funding, enabling financial systems, assurances of aid worker safety and principled humanitarian response. This includes ensuring that women are able to access the assistance and services they require and that Afghan women humanitarian workers can participate in the response safely, meaningfully and comprehensively.