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In Numbers
Nearly 20 million people are projected to be acutely food-insecure between November 2022 and March 2023, including more than 6 million people in Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Phase 4 (Emergency), according to preliminary estimates
4 million people are acutely malnourished, including 3.2 million children under the age of five
28.3 million people – two-thirds of Afghanistan’s population – require multi-sectoral humanitarian assistance in 2023
Highlights
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In February, WFP assisted over 11 million people in Afghanistan with emergency food, nutrition, and livelihoods support.
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WFP faces an immediate shortfall of USD 93 million to sustain operations through April 2023. As a result of resource constraints, WFP has cut ration sizes to IPC 4 populations from 75 to 50 percent of the standard 2,100 kilocalorie equivalent.
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WFP operations have resumed in Badghis and Nangarhar, after suspensions affected more than 412,000 people in February. Humanitarian activities are set to resume in Ghor in mid-March.
Situation Update
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In a severe blow to humanitarian operations, the de facto authorities banned Afghan women from working for non-governmental organizations (NGOs), in a decree issued on 24 December 2022.
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Nearly 20 million people in Afghanistan are acutely food-insecure (IPC 3+), including more than 6.1 million people on the brink of famine-like conditions in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency), according to preliminary projections for November 2022 to March 2023.
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Afghanistan continues to face the highest prevalence of insufficient food consumption globally, according to WFP’s latest Food Security Update: Round Fifteen (December 2022). One in two households is in crisis-coping mode to survive. On average, 88 percent of household income is spent on food as 92 percent of people in Afghanistan face insufficient food consumption.
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Nearly half of the population continues to employ crisis coping strategies to meet their basic needs. More than half of households (53 percent) rely on coping strategies to meet basic food needs, 81 percent of whom use both coping strategies of borrowing food and reducing adult meal portions. Households hosting persons with disabilities remain disproportionately impacted, with 61 percent relying on crisis-level coping strategies such as buying less preferred food.
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More people are requiring healthcare and access is improving. Eighty-seven percent of households are in need of healthcare, possibly due to the winter weather and lowered immunities. Economic concerns remain one of the biggest worries as four in ten households (44 percent) are concerned about losing their jobs.