Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund Annual Report 2018

This Annual Report presents information on the achievements of the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund during the 2018 calendar year.

Ongoing armed conflict continued to drive humanitarian needs across Afghanistan, inflicting the world’s highest levels of civilian casualties and the destruction critical public infrastructure.
The first nine months of 2018 registered a 46 per cent increase in the number of civilian casualties from suicide attacks; a 39 per cent increase in civilian casualties and a 153 per cent increase in aid workers killed or injured compared to the same period of the previous year. Large-scale military operations and indiscriminate use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) caused extreme levels of physical and psychological harm to civilians. 2018 was the fifth consecutive year with over 10,000 civilian casualties. Violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Human Rights occur frequently, and the protection of civilians was a key priority for humanitarians also in 2018.