top of page
Search

OCHA Ukraine: Who Does What, Where (3W/5W) September 2025

  • Writer: Matthew Parish
    Matthew Parish
  • 3 minutes ago
  • 3 min read
ree

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)


ree

Overall


% Reached is at 57% of Prioritized Reach, or 2.7 million, as of September.  Monthly New Reach was 115k, down slightly from 116k, last month (this is a correction from last month’s 122k number reported).


ree

Overall reach, in the Most Severe Needs Oblasts, is at 60%. .  70% of overall new reach, 80k, was in the Most Severe Needs Oblasts.


ree

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.


HEALTH (+5%) and Gender Based Violence (+5%) were the biggest movers in September.  Slightly smaller improvements in the large target clusters: General Protection (4%), SHELTER/NFI (3%) and WASH (+2%) are significantly impactful on overall numbers. 


ree

 

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% (CHILD PROTECTION) to 64% (HEALTH-correction from last month).  MINE ACTION (244%), could be a very real indicator of preparations for future readiness.


ree

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.  “Water & waste-water systems emergency support” (+4%) and FSL “Provision of market-based transitional cash” (+4%). The improvements weren’t as dramatic as August but again small, consistent improvements in the highest target activities, are laying the foundations for stability.


ree

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 88% 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) is still getting traction 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.  FSL is the 2nd best at cash/voucher activities through their “Provision of market based transitional cash” activity. Other cash/voucher activities continue to struggle.


SNFI “Winter Heating (In-kind)” (35%), “Winter Heating (cash-voucher)” (15%) and WASH “District Heating systems repairs and rehabilitation”(69%) activities, will be extra important for the next 6-7 months.


ree

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): https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/ukraine-multi-purpose-cash-assistance-and-sectoral-outcomes-assessment-examining-cash-assistance-and-its-impact-households-ukraine-april-2025



 
 

Note from Matthew Parish, Editor-in-Chief. The Lviv Herald is a unique and independent source of analytical journalism about the war in Ukraine and its aftermath, and all the geopolitical and diplomatic consequences of the war as well as the tremendous advances in military technology the war has yielded. To achieve this independence, we rely exclusively on donations. Please donate if you can, either with the buttons at the top of this page or become a subscriber via www.patreon.com/lvivherald.

Copyright (c) Lviv Herald 2024-25. All rights reserved.  Accredited by the Armed Forces of Ukraine after approval by the State Security Service of Ukraine. To view our policy on the anonymity of authors, please click the "About" page.

bottom of page