HE-NEXUS Group

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HIGHLIGHTS

• Humanitarian partners have continued scaling up immediate response efforts in the aftermath of the recent rains and floods that impacted most of the country. Overall, several hundred people are reported to have been killed and injured, thousands of homes damaged or destroyed, critical infrastructure damaged, including hundreds of kilometres of vital roads and multiple bridges, in addition to vast swathes of agricultural lands.
• To date, out of 73,300 people initially estimated to have been affected, over 31,600 people have been confirmed in need of urgent assistance with additional assessments ongoing in 75 districts. Over 12,000 people across affected and assessed areas have already received some type of support.
• The World Food Programme (WFP) has released food assistance for nearly 2,600 flood-affected families across several provinces, with distributions already ongoing in some areas and each household receiving two monthly food rations (in-kind or cash-based). Food Security partners also delivered cash-based food support to 97 families in Herat Province, prioritizing severely impacted communities in hard-hit districts.
• Emergency Shelter and non-food items (NFIs) support is expanding, with thousands of families identified for support.
• Health partners have provided essential services to approximately 6,300 people, including emergency care, maternal and child health, nutrition, immunization, and psychosocial support in multiple provinces.
• WASH partners reached 733 affected families with hygiene kits and integrated assistance, while assessments in the southern region identified 767 households for targeted response planning.
• Nutrition partners screened 160 children for acute malnutrition and delivered preventive interventions across affected provinces.
• Protection partners provided psychosocial and gender-based violence (GBV)-related support to over 2,200 people, while wider protection risks remain elevated, including increased exposure to GBV, child labour and psychological distress affecting an estimated 14,000 people.
• Key constraints include flood-related damage to infrastructure and access challenges, delays in data sharing and incomplete assessments in some areas, shortages of critical supplies and limited funding (particularly for health rehabilitation and emergency sanitation), and logistical challenges affecting timely delivery and scale-up of assistance.