OCHA Ukraine: Who Does What, Where (3W/5W) August 2025
- Matthew Parish
- Sep 22
- 3 min read
Please see the Ukraine Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2025 AND the Re-prioritized HNRP, released in April 2025 for specifics regarding objectives and targets. It is assumed that Many-Most operations will have been negatively impacted by the destruction of USAID, directly or indirectly.
The infographic now has the option to view the numbers based on the Reprioritized HNRP or the General Planned Reach (original).
According to the 2025 HNRP, these Oblasts make up the line of most severe need: Dnipropetrovka, Donetska, Kharkivska, Khersonska and Zaporizka. Reprioritization reductions, based on geography are mostly within the WASH, Education and Protection Clusters. Food Security and Livelihoods, made reductions in planned reach, in all Oblasts.
(See link below for the full report)
Overall
% Reached is at 54% of Prioritized Reach, or 2.6 million, as of August. Monthly New Reach was 122k, this highest since May of this year.
Overall reach, in the Most Severe Needs Oblasts, is at 57% in July, up from 55% in May . 61% of overall new reach, 75k, was in the Most Severe Needs Oblasts.
Performance by Cluster
The Clusters with the largest target numbers for 2025 (Bold) are WASH, Health, Shelter/NFI, General Protection and FSL. Improvements in these Clusters will have a more powerful impact on overall Reach.
Child Protection (+9%) and General Protection (7%) were, again the biggest movers in August. Smaller improvements in the large target clusters: HEALTH (5%), WASH (4%) and SHELTER/NFI (2%) are significantly impactful on overall numbers. Although Multi-Purpose Cash is continuing to struggle; their activities with the biggest gaps in the Most Severe areas are showing significant improvement (see Top 20 “Not Reached” Activities, below).
Funding by Cluster
The Clusters in bold are those with the highest Planned Reach. Funding for the top 5 Clusters has improved significantly since May, now ranging from 14% (WASH) to 74% (HEALTH). MINE ACTION, could be a very real indicator of preparations for future readiness.
Activities along the line of Most Severe Need
These are the top 10 activities along the line of Most Severe Need by Planned Reach Prioritized. The higher the Planned Reach, the greater the impact of improvement.
The two biggest improvers August were in WASH. “WASH Interventions in institutions” had a Whopping 39% improvement over July. Well DONE. An 11% improvement in District Heating systems is particularly significant and important as we get closer to winter. Again small, consistent improvements in the highest target activities, are laying the foundations for stability.
Top 20 “Not Reached” Activities on the Line of Most Severe Need
My hope is that this will be helpful for planners and grant writers. Surely projects that target the biggest gaps will add some extra points to the funding equations.
Methodology: I subtracted the Individuals Reached from the Target, then sorted Largest to Smallest. This list represents 82% of the individuals Not reached. (Pareto Anaylisis-80/20 rule, seems to work)
The activities highlighted in Green are cash/voucher activities. Efforts to improve delivery of cash/voucher support are a big part of the 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan. Organizations in various clusters have done some research and have a lot of tools for improving performance in 2025. (See the 2025 HNRP for details)
MPCA (Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance) seems to really be getting some results from the studies they did last year. If their successes in Provisions of multipurpose cash (MPCA) can be replicated across the other activities, that will be a big win. SNFI Winter Heating (cash-voucher) also seems to be making some decisions that could be replicated in the other SNFI activities. % Reached seems equally distributed across Oblasts and does not Seem to be correlated to number of implementing organizations. That would indicate that some Specific implementing organizations are figuring it out.
Who Does What Where (3W/5W) Infographic: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/ukraine-who-does-what-where-3w
Ukraine: Multi-purpose cash assistance and sectoral outcomes assessment - Examining cash assistance and its impact on households in Ukraine (April 2025):
Re-Prioritized HNRP for 2025: https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/addendum-re-prioritization-ukraine-2025-humanitarian-needs-and-response-plan-april-2025-enuk
