OCHA Ukraine: Who Does What, Where (3W/5W) May 2025
- Matthew Parish
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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). I’ve converted previous months’ numbers to the Reprioritized and that’s what I’ll be using moving forward.
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 49% of Prioritized Reach, or 2.3 million, up 3% from April. Monthly New Reach was not as dramatic as in previous months.
Overall reach, in the Most Severe Needs Oblasts, is at 67% as of April. 111% of overall New Reach is also happening in these Oblasts (which would seem to indicate a correction or something in the overall numbers).
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.
CCCM (Camp Coordination and Camp Management) and FSL (Food Security and Livelihoods) start the 70%+ club, in May. WASH (Water Sanitation and Hygiene) broke through to 53%. Education had the biggest improvement at 14%, followed by General Protection at 10%. It appears that Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance is continuing to struggle.
Funding by Cluster
The Clusters in bold are those with the highest Planned Reach. Funding for the top 5 Clusters ranges from 5% (WASH) to 34% (HEALTH). CCCM got a nice boost in funding which should mean reach in coming months.
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.
FSL’s “Distribution of in-kind food assistance” had the biggest improvement in May at 44%. “Provision of agricultural inputs” is also doing well at 88% reached, along with WASH’s “Water & waste water systems emergency support”, also at 88%. MPCA (Multi-Purpose Cash and Assistance) “Provision of multipurpose cash” is struggling, however FSL’s “Provision of market based transitional case and relief voucher assistance” project seems to be getting more reach and more improvement.
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 79% of the individuals Not reached. (Pareto Anaylsis-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)
Who Does What Where (3W/5W) Infographic: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/ukraine-who-does-what-where-3w
Re-Prioritized HNRP for 2025: https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/addendum-re-prioritization-ukraine-2025-humanitarian-needs-and-response-plan-april-2025-enuk