KABUL (Pajhwok): The Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund (AHF) has provided $275 million humanitarian aid to Afghanistan last year which helped the provision of prioritized life-saving assistance to 18.8 million people in Afghanistan, according to a statement on Monday.
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Afghanistan on its twitter handle wrote: “The 2022 #Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund (AHF) Annual Report is out! Thanks to our generous donors for contributing $275M to the AHF. This enabled partners to deliver strictly prioritized life-saving assistance to 18.8M people.”
The report said in 2022, the highest amount of humanitarian aid — $20.8 million went to Paktika province, $19.2 million to Ghor and $19 million to Herat while the lesser amount of aid landed in Zabul $1.8 million and Uruzgan provinces $1.5 million.
The number of people requiring humanitarian assistance increased from 24.4 million at the start of 2022, to a staggering 28.3 million people by the end of the year, affecting two-thirds of Afghanistan’s population.
At the end of 2022, 17 million people faced acute hunger, with 6 million people in emergency levels of food insecurity. One step away from famine and amongst the highest figures globally.
An estimated 4.7 million people suffered from acute malnutrition in 2022, including 1.1 million children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), 2.8 million children with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM), and over 800,000 pregnant and lactating women (PLW) suffering acute malnutrition.
OCHA announced that the number of people in need had surged from 28.3 million to 28.8 million in 2023.
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