Afghanistan: Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2025, Response Overview (1 January - 30 November 2025)

From January to November 2025, humanitarian partners reached 16.4 million people with at least one form of assistance, including 3.7 million individuals who benefited from three or more sectoral interventions. While this reflects significant reach, 61 per cent (10.1 million people) received food assistance, highlighting the extent to which food assistance continues to drive overall response figures. This underscores the scale of acute food insecurity, while also overshadowing the multi-sectoral needs of millions of people who require repeated and complementary support throughout the year to ensure their needs are adequately met.

The response was supported by $870 million in new funding reported as of November 2025 (36 per cent of requirements) supplemented by carryover funds from 2024. However, $1.55 billion (64 per cent) of the original $2.42 billion requirement remains unfunded, covering only one-third (33 per cent) of the most urgently prioritized 2025 HNRP requirement ($1.63 billion). In line with global reporting arrangements, some agencies submit updates to the Financial Tracking Service (FTS) later in the year; as such, funding levels are expected to be more comprehensively reflected in forthcoming updates.

In the current constrained funding environment, partners will prioritize more integrated, cost-effective approaches to delivery. This includes strengthened inter-sectoral targeting, biannual gap analyses to guide resource allocation, improved methodologies for calculating inter-sectoral reach, and greater transparency in reach data, including the disaggregation of food assistance by distribution rounds to better capture repeat support and unmet needs.

Amid sustained humanitarian needs and a complex operating environment, the capacity of partners to stay and deliver life-saving assistance depends on sufficient and flexible funding, enabling financial systems, assurances for aid worker safety, and an environment that safeguards principled humanitarian action. Central to this is ensuring equitable access to assistance for women and girls and enabling Afghan women humanitarian workers to participate safely, meaningfully, and fully in the response.