Afghanistan’s Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF), is a Country Based Pooled Fund (CBPF) directed by the UN Humanitarian Coordinator, with operational support from OCHA. The CHF-Afghanistan is a strategic financing tool with three key objectives to:
support humanitarian partners (national and international NGOs, UN Agencies and IOM) to address the most pressing evidence-based needs in accordance with humanitarian principles;
improve the relevance and coherence of humanitarian response by strategically funding assessed humanitarian action as identified in the HRP process;
strengthen coordination and leadership through the function of the HC and the Cluster system.
CONTRIBUTIONS
An estimated US$43.9 million in contributions and deposits are committed to the CHF-Afghanistan in 2016, representing a 70 per cent achievement towards the Fund’s annual target set at US$59 million by the Humanitarian Coordinator (15 per cent of the 2016 HRP).
Since its inception in 2014, US$110 million in contributions have been received from eight key donors dedicated to coordinated humanitarian action in Afghanistan. The UNDP Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF)
Office in New York acts as the administrative agent for the CHF and maintains a website with contributions, funded projects, disbursements and annual expenditure (http://mptf.undp.org/ ).