Iceland has contributed 50 million Icelandic krona (about $402,000) to the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday.
OCHA said the funding will support humanitarian organizations providing emergency assistance to families affected by crises across Afghanistan.
“Your support is enabling humanitarian partners to deliver urgent assistance to families affected by crises across Afghanistan,” OCHA said in a statement thanking Iceland for the contribution.
The donation comes as humanitarian agencies warn of a widening funding shortfall in Afghanistan. OCHA recently said that only about 16 percent of the $1.71 billion required for the country’s 2026 humanitarian response plan had been funded by the end of May.
Aid agencies estimate that millions of people across Afghanistan continue to require humanitarian assistance amid economic hardship, food insecurity, climate-related shocks and large-scale returns of migrants from neighboring countries.
The Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund is one of the UN’s primary mechanisms for financing emergency relief operations in the country, channeling donor contributions to humanitarian partners working on the ground.