KABUL (Pajhwok): United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Afghanistan says humanitarian partners operating in Afghanistan reached 9.9 million people with food assistance between January and March of 2024.
In a post on X, OCHA wrote: “Between January and March 2024, humanitarian partners reached 9.9 million people with at least one form of humanitarian assistance and at least one million people with three different types of sectoral support.”
Although this represents a broad reach in absolute terms, 87 per cent of the 9.9 million people reached overall received food assistance.
It said highlighting the extent to which food security and agriculture coverage continues to drive 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.
Response was enabled by a combination of new funding as of 31 March 2024 ($221.8 million) and funds carried over from 2023 ($412.5 million).
However, $2.85 billion (93 per cent) of the $3.1 billion required to deliver humanitarian assistance in March 2024 remained unfunded.
At the same time, new needs continue to be generated by sudden-onset crises while simultaneously exacerbating underlying vulnerabilities.
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