Cluster needs
The 2024 Whole of Afghanistan Assessment (WoAA) indicated that food remains the highest priority need of the most vulnerable population of Afghanistan. Afghans continue to face significant challenges to food security as the impacts of political and economic turmoil, exacerbated by multiple natural disasters like floods, earthquakes and droughts have compounded chronic hunger that has plagued the country for decades. Additionally, an influx of Afghan refugees and returnees from neighboring regions strains resources and impacts food security.
From November 2024 to March 2025, which coincides with the peak of the lean season, about 14.8 million people (32 percent of the total population) are projected to be classified in IPC Phase 3+ and will be in urgent need of food assistance and emergency agriculture support. This includes 3.1 million people (7 percent of the total population) classified in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency) and 11.6 million (25 percent of the total population) in IPC Phase 3 (Crisis). Overall, the number of people projected to be food-insecure would be 1.1 million fewer than during the same period last year (November 2023 to March 2024), including half a million fewer people in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency). This gradual improvement in the food security situation can be attributed to improved agricultural production, the scale of humanitarian food and emergency agricultural assistance in 2023/4 and improved household purchasing power, among other factors.
The provinces indicating relatively higher prevalence of food insecurity (IPC 3+) and severity (% of population in IPC Phase 4) include Badakhshan, Bamyan, Daikundi, Faryah, Hirat and Nangarhar. The most impacted populations include shock-affected communities, refugees, returnees from neighbouring countries and displaced communities. Amongst them, female-headed households are most vulnerable to food insecurity, especially given the restrictions on women’s work and movement. Children are also among the most vulnerable in the communities.
By October 2024, 11.6 million people (25 percent of the total population of 46 million people) faced high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in IPC Phase 3 or above (Crisis or worse) and were therefore in urgent need of humanitarian food assistance.
Natural hazards continue to compromise food security throughout Afghanistan. In 2024, 33 out of 34 provinces were struck by some natural hazard. Afghanistan is prone to earthquakes, flooding, drought, landslides and avalanches. Over four decades of conflict, coupled with environmental degradation and insufficient investments into disaster risk reduction contributed to food insecurity and increases vulnerability of the Afghan people to cope with the sudden shocks of natural hazards. These shocks affected various households often in combination or year-after-year. The most affected populations include returnees, displaced communities and host communities. According to the 2024WoAA, 95 per cent of households reported experiencing at least one shock in the 12 months prior to data collection, reflecting a steady increase over the past 2 years (87 per cent in 2022 to 92 per cent in 2023). About 45 per cent of households reported having experienced at least two shocks in the 12 months prior to data collection. These levels are heightened for rural (55 per cent) compared to urban households (21 per cent). The key shocks included economic, drought and floods. The economic shocks on the most vulnerable included loss of livestock, reduced agricultural production, reduced work opportunities and reduced incomes. Women-headed households were more likely to report economic shocks than male (97 per cent compared to 90 per cent). Conflict has significantly reduced, reported by about only 2 per cent of the respondents, especially in areas of Kabul, Kunduz and Panjshir.
Since the end of 2021, when food insecurity peaked at 22.8 million people classified in IPC 3 or higher, after the political transition and the economic turmoil, households have continued to report improvements in their capacity to meet basic needs. Despite improvements, Afghanistan still faces a wheat deficit. Economic hardship and high unemployment persist, but food prices have declined due to strong 2024 harvests, global commodity price drops and appreciation of the Afghan currency. Overall, food prices are expected to increase nominally (less than 5 percent) during the lean season, while supply levels are anticipated to remain stable. Fuel and transportation costs are also expected to rise during the winter months, particularly in areas affected by heavy snowfall and road blockages, such as the Salang pass. Deflation reflects weak demand and high unemployment, while the labor market faces added pressure from returning migrants from both Pakistan and 2 million expected returnees form Iran.
Humanitarian aid and emergency agriculture support combined with above-average 2024 harvests have reduced the number of people in severe food insecurity, though levels remain above those prior to 2021. However, humanitarian funding continues to significantly reduce despite the need for food and emergency agriculture assistance remaining high. This has led to reduced packages of assistance for the most vulnerable. Access to sufficient and quality inputs to the most vulnerable farmers remains a challenge.
As of mid-October 2024, the Columbia Climate School’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) forecasts a 60 percent chance that borderline La Niña conditions could develop between September and November and persist through March 2025. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) also supports this forecast and has issued a La Niña Watch, though it notes that recent atmospheric indicators are not consistently strong enough to confirm a full La Niña pattern. The phenomenon has a strong relationship with drought in Afghanistan. Below average rainfall could lead to dry or drought conditions in Afghanistan from December to April.
The anticipated La Niña conditions from October 2024 to May 2025, are expected to further strain agricultural productivity in the country, due to diminished water availability for both crops and livestock, worsening food security. Such events have the potential to further strain agricultural productivity in the country, leading to diminished water availability for both crops and livestock, underscoring the need for continued aid, emergency agricultural support and infrastructure investment.
During the winter period which coincides with the lean season, the mountainous regions, especially in the northeast (Hindu Kush and Pamir ranges), will likely experience heavy snowfall, which can lead to localized road blockages and transportation challenges affecting access to food. In contrast, the lower plains and southern regions are expected to face drier conditions with relatively lower precipitation, which may hinder winter wheat sowing and other agricultural activities. These areas include Helmand, Kandahar, Nimroz and Uruzgan, among others. While snow accumulation in higher altitudes is critical for water availability in spring and summer, dry spells during the winter season could negatively impact rain-fed agriculture in the more arid regions. Snowpack and snow water volumes will likely be below average, leading to limited water availability for agriculture. With warmer winter temperatures expected, the usual road blockages and livestock deaths may be less severe, but vegetation conditions in rangelands are likely to deteriorate, further impacting livelihoods of communities depending on livestock.
Cluster response plan
FSAC’s response aims to address food security needs of people facing acute food insecurity through food assistance for 14.2 million people and emergency agriculture support for 7.1 million people, out of the 14.8 million food insecure people.
Overall, the FSAC’s priority response activities in 2025 build upon the positive impacts of food security and emergency agriculture assistance since 2021 when the food insecurity levels sharply rose.
For 2025 humanitarian response, the FSAC partners will continue to provide humanitarian food assistance and emergency agriculture support, recalibrating the response given continued high needs, improvements in some segments and reduced funding forecasts. The populations to be assisted with food assistance and emergency agriculture support include natural disaster-affected communities, refugees, returnees from neighbouring countries such as Iran and Pakistan, and displaced communities. Amongst them, focus will be on particularly vulnerable female-headed households and children in the communities.
- Humanitarian food assistance
The FSAC partners will target 14.2 million people of the 14.8 million projected to be food insecure during the period November 2024-March 2025, across the 34 provinces, based on their fragility, diverse shocks and severity of food insecurity across the country.
The October 2024 IPC analysis for Afghanistan, shows that food insecurity is spread across the country, with all provinces in phase 3, and with 33 out of the 34 provinces having 5 – 15 per cent of their populations in IPC Phase 4, making it difficult to end assistance to geographic locations. While the severity of food insecurity has improved over the last 3 years, the levels of vulnerability remain high and hence, the difficult decision to reach broadly rather than deeply. For food assistance, given the funding constraints, this is a more affordable approach as compared to a deep instead of broad, which would imply increasing ration sizes and numbers of month of assistance, which would lead to doubling the funding requirement for food assistance. Additionally, evidence also shows that vulnerable households share assistance with other most vulnerable.
Due to limited funding amidst high needs, the FSAC partners will aim to reach in 2025 more of the most vulnerable populations through further recalibration of the humanitarian food assistance.
- Rations: Food assistance rations for all households will be provided at 50 per cent of the required amount. The 50 per cent ration will apply to both the IPC 3 populations and the IPC 4. In previous years, IPC 4 populations received 75 per cent of the rations.
- Months of Assistance: Prior to 2024, IPC 4 populations were supposed to receive 12 months support. Due to insufficient funding in 2024, 8 months rations were planned for the IPC 4 populations, while IPC 3 populations planned for 6 months. In 2025, due to the continued funding reductions, both IPC 4 and 3 populations will only receive assistance for 6 months of the year with the assistance prioritized during the peak of the lean season, which coincides with the winter.
Within this 14.2 million people to be targeted for food assistance, FSAC is also planning aid for 68,280 people displaced due to conflict and natural hazards, 181,748 people affected by sudden onset natural hazards, 696,378 undocumented returnees from Iran and Pakistan, and 50,434 Pakistani refugees. FSAC will also aims to assist 1,710,016 people with disabilities which is 12 per cent of the total caseload. Therefore, the overall number of people targeted for food in-kind and cash assistance amounts is 14.2 million people (Boys-3,784,196, Girls-3,650,755, Men-3,368,361 and Women-3,395,704).
Humanitarian Food Assistance partners, led by WFP, will monitor hotspots throughout the year to identify the any significant deteriorations in food security at sub-district level. Partners are planning for about 980,000 people in the newly identified hotspots where new emergencies happen and where the monitoring indicates significant deterioration of the food security situation.
- Emergency Agriculture Support
The 2024 Seasonal Food Security Assessments indicate that around 89 per cent of the people of Afghanistan rely on agriculture as the main source of food and overall livelihood. Among them, about 85 per cent of the population surveyed own livestock and over 80 per cent own or can access agriculture. This implies that providing support for emergency agriculture assistance (crop and livestock) is important to improving the food security situation of the most vulnerable households in Afghanistan. Emergency agriculture assistance has been provided in previous years.
For the 2025 emergency agriculture support, partners led by the FAO, prioritised activities for the 2025 response including packages for wheat cultivation, livestock protection and backyard vegetable cultivation. These are essential to generating income and protecting productive assets of the most vulnerable households included female-headed households. Due to the high prevalence of plant pest and animal diseases outbreaks such as Lumpy Skin Disease, Locust, etc., containment measures have been put in place for 2025.
The 2025 HNRP requirement for emergency agricultural assistance aims to reach 55 per cent of rural households facing acute food insecurity (IPC3+) which is a reduction as compared to the 2024 plan. This reduction reflects these factors: (1) reduced targeting in line with IPC projections; (2) efficiency savings; and (3) the strategic transition from humanitarian assistance to basic human needs support that seeks to (1) address the underlying causes of chronic food insecurity; and (2) build the resilience of poor vulnerable food insecure households to withstand shocks and forge sustainable livelihoods.
The wheat seed contribution has been reduced by 43 per cent from 2024 to 2025 (700k households to 400k households), even though the wheat harvest was only approximately 10 per cent higher in 2024 as compared to 2023 (4.9m MT as compared to 4.5m MT in 2023). The reduction in the wheat requirement in the 2025 HNRP, reflects the strategic transition from humanitarian assistance to BHN. FSAC’s wheat requirement in the 2025 HNRP will focus on providing emergency agricultural assistance to households directly affected by shocks (drought/floods/returns) whilst particularly the FAO’s wheat requirement against the UNSFA/BHN will focus on addressing the underlying drivers of food insecurity, in particular the structural gap between food production and national demand (which stands at approximately 2m MT).
The projections for likely drought/reduced precipitation during Q1 2025 will impact pasture conditions and livestock health. FSAC’s emergency agricultural assistance therefore includes an increased requirement for emergency livestock assistance, which will keep livestock healthy (animal feed + emergency animal health) to keep animals productive, particularly in relation to milk and meat production, and will reduce risks of distress selling, noting that emergency support to the livestock sector has a strongly positive impact on vulnerable people, including women. Further, herders are a highly vulnerable population group, hard to reach with traditional forms of aid and living far from markets. The emergency livestock package ensures livestock are vaccinated, treated and fed so they remain a viable asset for extremely vulnerable households. There is growing evidence that animal feed interventions directly contribute to reduced child malnutrition.
The emergency agriculture activities complement humanitarian food assistance to ensure food gaps of the most vulnerable people are covered, while considering seasonality and vulnerability of households. Food assistance is scaled up during the peak of the lean season which coincides with the winter when food needs are highest, whereas emergency agriculture assistance addresses livelihoods and food availability for the most vulnerable households during the harvest and post-harvest period. During the harvest and post-harvest period, food assistance is reduced to hotspot areas only and targeting the extremely most vulnerable. Food assistance and emergency agriculture support significantly contributes to improving food consumption, dietary diversity for nutrition and reduces protection risks for the most vulnerable households.
About 50 per cent of the FSAC response is intended to be delivered through the Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA), whereas the rest will be in kind.
FSAC will continue to lead on preparedness and contingency planning. Particularly in preparation for the winter response which coincides with the lean season, the FSAC will coordinate with partners to do a projection of the most critical needs and where the most critical gaps are. During this period, the FSAC will coordinate with the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund (AHF) and the ICCT to jointly plan for the funds that provide rapid response to the areas with the most needs. Working closely with the regional focal points, early warning actors and continuous response monitoring, FSAC will support partners in preparedness including sharing timely information in various meetings, advocacy to the different stakeholders and fundraising. These will support partners to take preparedness actions which may include assessments, prepositioning and simulations to improve overall systems. In addition, the Cluster will also begin to engage on the anticipatory action approach, starting with the anticipated La Nina conditions for 2025.
Targeting and prioritization
FSAC targets vulnerable populations in IPC AFI Phase 3 and 4 across both urban and rural regions of Afghanistan. All 34 provinces across Afghanistan face various shocks and vulnerabilities related to food security. Some of the guiding criteria for targeting at geographic level for both humanitarian food assistance and emergency agriculture will include provinces with higher prevalence levels of food insecurity (IPC 3&4 populations) and severity (higher prevalence of IPC 4 populations). Other criteria will include locations receiving high number of returnees, displaced people and locations that will be impacted by shocks. According to the 2024 WoAA, apart from poverty reported by 83 per cent of the respondents, other key causes of prolonged displacement include food insecurity reported by 53 per cent respondents, drought (36 per cent) and debts (23 per cent). Female-headed households and prolonged IDPs still experience higher levels of food insecurity than other population groups.
FSAC has developed a response plan to ensure efficient resource allocation to reach the most vulnerable and food insecure people. Food assistance will be provided at 50 per cent ration, for a maximum of 6 month per cycle. During the lean/winter season from January to March 2025 and later November 2025 to March 2026, FSAC will scale up humanitarian food assistance. During the spring and summer (outside the lean season), food assistance will be focused on only the most vulnerable households such as those with protection concerns including female-headed households, new emergencies or locations showing significantly deteriorated food security under the hotspot monitoring, and vulnerable new arrivals among others.
FSAC partners continue to use cluster Vulnerability Criteria for Beneficiary Identification to allocate assistance. The Cluster will work with partners to strengthen the criteria to reach the most vulnerable, based on the October 2024 Afghanistan IPC analysis, in addition to other assessments such as the Seasonal Food Security Assessment (SFSA). The criteria used for beneficiary selection continues to include recently displaced people, people without social support, large families with low incomes, lack of productive assets, high dependency ratio, lack of income through daily wages, major deficit in crop and livestock production. Other key criteria for targeting include households with people with disabilities, female-headed households and those with high food-based coping strategies. Specifically for 2025, one additional key criterion will be added to include households with high debts, as this was a key sign of vulnerability indicated in the 2024 SFSA.
Should partners not receive the required funding, the duration of food assistance will be reduced. Reaching the maximum number of people is critical to prevent those in IPC Phase 3 from deteriorating to Phase 4 and to mitigate potential IPC Phase 5 “Catastrophe” conditions in hotspots, guided by various monitoring mechanisms including the hotspot monitoring and Data in Emergencies (DIEM) among the monitoring tools. For emergency agriculture assistance, the number of households will be reduced relative to the funding received.
Support to food production and emergency agricultural livelihoods will focus on rural areas, targeting the most vulnerable crop farmers and herders that have been affected by various shocks such as droughts, floods and the limited access to inputs.
Humanitarian response activities will be maintained for critical life-saving activities, whereas the Basic Human Needs (BHN) will seek to boost resilience. Some activities such as asset creation and unconditional cash for livelihoods have been moved to BHN to a ensure are more prioritized humanitarian response for 2025.
Promoting accountable, quality and inclusive programming
The FSAC partners identify and prioritize the most vulnerable groups, ensuring that women, children and men have equal and fair access to food assistance and emergency agriculture support. The most vulnerable men and women will have access to the various emergency agriculture activities for 2025 especially vegetable backyard gardening, livestock support and wheat package.
FSAC and its partners are mainstreaming accountability and feedback to affected people by partners substantively engaging beneficiaries in all project phases including through the design of assistance programs, implementation activities such as selection of distribution and assistance sites to ensure safe access and inclusive participation of women. According to the 2024 WoAA, female-headed household income per HH member decreased much more than that of male-headed households. Growing disparities between men and women demonstrate women’s increased livelihood vulnerabilities. Targeted interventions are needed to improve income stability for the most vulnerable female-headed households. On a positive note, the 2024 SFSA indicates that about 51 per cent of the women surveyed indicate that women are engaging in income generating activities to support their families. However, only 27 per cent reported working outside home, synonymous with the restrictions of movement and work for women.
The restrictions on women and girls require additional efforts from various stakeholders including the HCT, donors and partners to ensure they are heard and have access to safe and meaningful opportunities to contribute to earn an income and enjoy food security. Various means can be used to ensure that women and girls’ voices are captured assessments and through inclusive community engagement with women, men, youth, elders, Shura, authorities, etc., to sensitize and engage all members to support women’s participation and access.
FSAC in 2025 will continue to collaborate with the Protection Cluster and Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) to ensure safe participation of women in assessments. For instance, in 2024 over 20 per cent participation of women was recorded during the SFSA data collection, with about 50 per cent of the clusters having women enumerators administering surveys. The SFSA is the main data source for the IPC analysis in Afghanistan. During the IPC analysis, 30 per cent of the analysts were female. This is due to intentional efforts by the FSAC and partners to ensure female participation in these important activities in 2025. In 2025, FSAC will pilot the operationalization of definition of “Women-Led Organizations” for the context of Afghanistan. Empowering more women-led organizations will increase the reach to the most vulnerable women in Afghanistan.
The involvement of female staff significantly increases the chances of reaching out to female community members. The FSAC will continue to advocate for and sensitize partners with the support of the GiHA Working Group to ensure safe participation and involvement of female staff including through payment for maharam costs, hiring locally and continue to support female staff to work remotely where they may face a risk.
FSAC will sensitize partners to seek feedback on the specific needs of vulnerable populations including marginalized, Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) and female-headed households. FSAC encourages partners to organize focus group discussions with beneficiary communities, post-distribution monitoring and rapid protection assessments to verify that beneficiaries can access humanitarian assistance in a safe and dignified manner. To strengthen AAP, FSAC collaborates with AWAAZ, establishing a referral pathway for complaints (AWAAZ → FSAC → Partner → FSAC → AWAAZ). Feedback from communities is forwarded to field partners and responses are relayed back to communities through AWAAZ. FSAC partners also have their own robust complaints and feedback mechanisms that consider beneficiaries views and aim to ensure that assistance is provided in the most dignified manner possible. FSAC partners will fully integrate gender in the implementation of its response. This is achieved through gender-sensitive and responsive vulnerability criteria, which ensure targeted assistance to diverse beneficiaries. FSAC partners will systematically apply safe distribution practices in all distributions, such as separate waiting areas for male and female beneficiaries and availability of both male and female distribution staff, wherever possible. FSAC partners will follow the Do No Harm principle and strives to ensure assistance does not exacerbate GBV and ensure beneficiaries’ safe, dignified and unhindered access to assistance. FSAC will provide capacity building opportunities to partners for mainstreaming key protection-related areas and key cross-cutting themes such as gender-responsive, AAP, Disability, PSEA, Child Protection especially to avert child labor among others.
Links to basic services and basic human needs (BHN) programmes
The 2025 HNRP will focus more on life-saving and humanitarian activities, while other interventions will be moved under BHN to improve overall response efficiency and effectiveness. FSAC partners play a vital role in providing lifesaving food and emergency agriculture assistance, and coordination with the BHN actors will be strengthened in 2025 through the various working groups.
For example, following discussions coordinated by the FSAC with the FSAC Strategic Advisory Group (SAG), lead agencies, and the HCT it was agreed that certain activities such as asset creation and unrestricted cash support for livelihoods will transition to the BHN cluster. Among the asset creation activities includes small-scale community infrastructure, managed, and owned by communities and focused on water and irrigation-related assistance, which builds upon the impact of emergency humanitarian assistance. However, critical activities that directly address life-saving needs and enhance the self-sufficiency of the most vulnerable, such as food assistance and emergency agriculture activities (e.g., wheat support, livestock protection, and backyard vegetable cultivation), will remain within FSAC humanitarian response. These humanitarian food security activities are particularly important given the projected worsening of acute malnutrition in 2025 and are aimed at improving the nutrition and resilience of the most vulnerable households.
The goal of the BHN framework is to address the root causes of food insecurity and overall vulnerability. This will be done through investments that address infrastructure and social-economic issues which will provide long-term solutions to alleviate unemployment, strengthen sustainable agricultural livelihoods and food security. These will include market support programs, support towards increasing productivity through agriculture machinery as requested by farmers and asset creation activities which contribute to meeting food gaps during the lean season and establishing and rehabilitating important communal productive assets such as irrigation schemes and reclaiming agricultural land post shocks, such as floods.
If funded, complementary basic human needs programmes will interface with FSAC’s food assistance and emergency agriculture support. This will ensure effective nexus approaches that address both immediate humanitarian needs and provide and/or connect with approaches that contribute to sustainable pathways which both reduce future humanitarian needs and ensure longer-term growth.
Cost of response
For 2025, the Afghanistan FSAC requires US$1.1 billion to reach the 14.2 million and 7.1 million people targeted for humanitarian food assistance and emergency agriculture respectively. The Sector’s funding requirement is calculated on unit/activity-based costing, with per capita costs of 16 $/person/month for humanitarian food assistance. For emergency agriculture, the cost is an estimated average of 238 $/household (HH), with unit cost ranges of 186.98 – 324.68 $/HH depending on the activity. Prices and market conditions of the major staple foods have decreased due to deflation and currency appreciation, although they remain higher than pre-COVID-19-19. Overall, food and agriculture input prices are expected to increase nominally (less than 5 per cent) during the lean season, while supply levels are anticipated to remain stable due to the appreciation of the Afghani which facilitates imports and harvests from the 2024 season.
Cluster severity and PiN calculation methodology
The FSAC People in Need (PiN) figures for 2025 were primarily derived from the IPC Acute Food Insecurity (AFI) analysis conducted in October 2024. This analysis identifies the population requiring food and emergency agriculture assistance for the 2025 response, taking into consideration different population groups including vulnerable groups such as refugees, returnees and shock-affected non-displaced populations—particularly those impacted by sudden-onset natural disasters.
The IPC AFI relies on a wide range of data sources to provide a comprehensive assessment. Key inputs include the 2024 Seasonal Food Security Assessment (SFSA), FEWSNET’s climate-related data and the WoAA. Other key data sources include FAO's Data in Emergencies (DIEM), Wheat Balance Sheet, Humanitarian Food Assistance (HFA) data, WFP’s market price trends and localized assessments and response data from FSAC partners. Together, these and other datasets on displacement and nutrition form the foundation for understanding food security needs across the country.
Needs analysis, response monitoring strategy and data gaps
The IPC analysis results will be the main FSAC planning tool against which monitoring of the response will be done.
The FSAC will conduct regular independent and joint monitoring field missions, especially IPC hotspot areas throughout the year to verify the results of the assessments, and better understand the regional drivers of food insecurity and how the drivers are evolving under the projected assumptions. These will include the impact of the anticipated La Nina conditions. Through the annual SFSA and Pre-Lean Season Assessment (PLSA), the biannual IPC AFI (pre- and post-harvest) complemented by other ad-hoc and partners assessments such as the WoAA and DIEM. Between the two rounds of IPC, various tools will be used monthly to monitor the changes in the context. These include the Hotspot Monitoring, partners’ Post Distribution Monitoring (PDMs), and feedback mechanisms reports through which the FSAC partners will be able to timely monitor the impact of the response, identify new and emerging needs and advocate for the required funding. Furthermore, market price monitoring, displacement tracking and intersectoral monitoring data sets will complement the FSAC monitoring in between the two rounds of the IPC analysis and facilitate adjustments of the response priorities.
With the needs remaining high in 2025, amidst continuously reducing funds, the FSAC will enhance coordination among partners to eliminate duplication of service delivery, through the regular gap analysis and ensure effective prioritization/targeting so immediate needs are addressed in priority locations. The FSAC will collect partners’ response data through 5W data collection reported monthly through the ReportHub. Results are published monthly feeding into the HNRP monthly response reporting. The “traffic lights” approach initiated in 2024 will indicate to partners areas at district level which will have significant gaps. In addition, the partner presence maps will be used to show areas where current partners are present to avoid overlap of partners. Partners will apply their internal electronic mechanisms for beneficiary identification to avoid duplication of beneficiaries.
The FSAC will continue to work with the PSEA Task Force, AAP and GiHA to ensure that protection-related feedback regarding the most vulnerable in line with food security is addressed accordingly and overall trends analyzed to improve the quality of the food security response.
References
- The enduring repercussions of three successive severe dry spells or droughts from 2021 to 2023 persist, leaving numerous households burdened with high levels of debt. Furthermore, additional natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes have exacerbated the already limited resilience of the population, leading to a prolonged state of severe food insecurity.
- https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/afghanistan/afghanistan-over…