Between 25 March and 6 April 2026, severe flooding affected over 73,300 people across 165 districts in 31 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces – about one-third of the country’s total territory

This report is part of a series on localised vulnerability in Afghanistan, made possible with the support and coordination of the Afghanistan Protection Cluster and its members.

This report is part of a series on localised vulnerability in Afghanistan, made possible with the support and coordination of the Afghanistan Protection Cluster and its members. The purpose of a localised approach is to identify location-specific causes and manifestations of vulnerability to unmet needs and better understand how people experience and mitigate them.

Clashes between the Interim Taliban Authority (ITA) forces and the Pakistani military have escalated since 21 February, with both parties engaging in fighting along the Durand Line 

This report is part of a series on localised vulnerability in Afghanistan, made possible with the support and coordination of the Afghanistan Protection Cluster and its members. Reports in the series include analyses of districts in Herat, Baghlan (forthcoming) and Nangarhar (forthcoming) provinces.

This analysis reflects on vulnerability drivers in Injil district and Herat city. It intends to support the prioritisation and design of humanitarian and basic human needs assistance in the targeted areas by enhancing humanitarian responders’ understanding of the factors affecting people’s overall vulnerability to basic needs issues, including their capacity to meet their own needs.

By highlighting the most pressing pre-earthquake humanitarian needs in Balkh and Samangan provinces and indicating how the earthquake may have aggravated these needs, these profiles provide insight into the potential scope and scale of the earthquake’s impact, supporting response planning and prioritisation. 

This report analyses the earthquake’s impact on the protection situation in Kunar and Nangarhar provinces, identifying key risks and threats to monitor and address following the response’s emergency phase.

This report examines how power manifest­s through six components of partnership, identifying both the practices associated with each component and the perceptions behind these practices. 

By highlighting the most pressing pre-earthquake humanitarian needs in Nangarhar province and indicating how the earthquakes may have aggravated these needs, this profile provides insight into the potential scope and scale of the earthquakes’ impact, supporting response planning and prioritisation in the absence of detailed post-earthquake data.

Between 1 January and 27 August 2025, more than 1.9 million Afghans returned from Iran, of whom over half (around 1.1 million) were deported. By comparison, over 906,300 Afghans returned from Iran during all of 2024. 

By highlighting the most pressing, pre-earthquake humanitarian needs in Kunar province and exploring how the earthquake may aggravate these needs, this profile provides insight into the potential scope and scale of the earthquake’s impact.

This report explores the dynamics of internal displacement linked to climate and environmental hazards, such as drought, flooding, and desertification, from a granular and intersectional perspective that considers gender, age, and disability.

This report builds on ACAPS’ briefing note on what the US aid freeze means to Afghanistan, published on 7 February 2025. It aims to provide a more comprehensive overview of the implications of the US aid freeze and subsequent cuts on humanitarian programming in the country, with a focus on how this affects humanitarian response capacity and Afghans.

This paper examines Uzbekistan's engagement in Afghanistan, focusing on the period since August 2021. It first describes Uzbekistan's foreign policy perspective on Afghanistan, including humanitarian assistance and economic investments and cooperation.

A complex intersection of traditional gender norms and progressive and regressive changes resulting from political instability has long shaped women’s participation in public Afghan life. Over the last century, women and girls have experienced periods of improvement relating to the realisation of their full range of rights. 

On 20 January 2025, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order (EO) calling for a 90-day suspension of US-funded foreign aid, including humanitarian operations.

This report is an update on the forward-looking snapshot of the Afghan economy published in January 2023 and aims to provide humanitarian responders with an understanding of Afghanistan’s key economic constraints

These updates aim to provide humanitarian responders with an understanding of the shifting policy environment and the broader implications of these policy decisions.

This report aims to add to the body of evidence on human safety and security issues that returnees face in Afghanistan to enable targeted protection interventions that are appropriate, relevant, and specific to returnees and that may address the risks host communities are also facing.