Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund Annual Report 2024

Donor contributions

In 2024, the year of the Fund’s tenth anniversary, the AHF reached an alltime donor contribution level of $1.1 billion placing it among the three largest OCHA Country-based Pooled Funds (CBPF) globally. Without any doubt, the AHF’s success has been rooted in the generous support of donors who continue to extend their trust and collaboration to the Fund as critical enabler for the humanitarian response in Afghanistan.

While contributions to the AHF decreased in 2024 compared to previous years, the Fund maintained a broad donor base. The AHF was especially pleased about the support of $16 million from the Netherlands as leading donor over the past twelve months, and about initial contributions from Kuwait ($500,000) and Bulgaria ($32,000) who pledged to the AHF for the first time.

A total of $74.4 million was received in 2024, building on the estimated carry-over of $37.6 million from 2023. Some 12.5 per cent ($9.3 million) of funds deposited by donors were made available by the end of the first quarter. In quarter two, 14.4 per cent ($10.7 million) was made available including multi-year funding, followed by 38.2 percent ($28.4 million) in quarter three and 34.8 per cent ($25.9 million) in quarter four.

Against a backdrop of increasing needs, deteriorating operating environments, and overall reduction of funding for both humanitarian assistance and basic human needs, the AHF continued to demonstrate its ability to serve as a flexible and reliable funding mechanism for strictly prioritized life-saving humanitarian assistance, enabling initiation and scale-up of the response prioritising remote and hardto-reach areas and focussing on life-saving activities in underfunded sectors rather than common services.

The overarching objective remains that the implementing partners in Afghanistan have at their disposal a well-resourced funding mechanism that can provide timely, rapid, and predictable funding for life-saving response. In 2025, humanitarian partners will continue to need adequate and reliable resources to meet needs efficiently and effectively in view of competing global crises, declining aid budgets and geopolitical realities. The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan (leading the AHF), supported by OCHA, will continue their efforts to diversify and deepen the donor base, aiming to increase early and predictable funding decisions.