Afghanistan: Humanitarian Access Severity Overview (December 2025)
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Key Findings
The consolidated Access Severity Mapping (ASM) across all humanitarian partner groups – UN Agencies, International NGOs (INGOs), National NGOs (NNGOs) and (sub-national) cluster leads – revealed the following:
• Zero districts were classified under high access severity in this round.
• Moderate access severity in 242 districts (representing 60 per cent of all districts).
• Low access severity in 159 districts (representing 40 per cent of all districts).
Restrictions on female staff and programming, bureaucratic and administrative impediments, interference by De Facto Authorities (DfA), and socio-economic and population pressures were the most frequent humanitarian access impediments during the reporting period.