Common Humanitarian Fund: 2015 Annual Report Afghanistan

In 2015, the CHF-Afghanistan proved its importance as a strategic tool for a flexible and timely response to address new and emerging critical humanitarian needs. Under the leadership of the UN Humanitarian Coordinator (HC), the CHF disbursed US$37.9 million to projects addressing critical gaps and prioritized needs, particularly for the huge increase in internally
displaced persons (IDPs).

The whole of the second reserve allocation was given to answering the urgent needs of families affected by the large scale 7.5 magnitude earthquake on 26 October, where the priority was getting assistance to families before winter arrived in the mountains. No other donor money was expressly made available for this response. Together with the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), the UN humanitarian pooled fund provided the lions’ share of the new money made available to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs after the fall of Kunduz and the October earthquake. The CHF proved itself as a speedy and flexible fund to enable critical humanitarian response in Afghanistan.