OCHA/UN Ukraine: Who Does What, Where (3W/5W) November 2025
- Jan 2
- 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 ge/ography 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 63% of Prioritized Reach, or 3.0 million, as of November. Monthly New Reach was 198k, more than Double October and the highest increase since April 2025!
Overall reach, in the Most Severe Needs Oblasts, is at 65%. 61% of overall new reach, 121k, 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.
SHELTER/NFI (+5%) and WASH (+5%) were the biggest movers in November, followed closely by HEALTH at (+4%). These improvements on top of last month’s in the three highest target Clusters are going to pack a punch.
CCCM (Camp Coordination and Camp Management) is reaching the highest percentage of their target at 78%, followed by FSL and General Protection at 74%.
Funding by Cluster
The Clusters in bold are those with the highest Planned Reach. All Clusters have now made it out of the teens for funding. CCCM got the biggest boost in funding bringing from 36% to 109% funded, making it fully funded for the first time. HEALTH also got a 13% increase getting it to 75% funded.
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 biggest improver in November is HEALTH’s largest activity “Procure, pre-position and distribute essential medicines, equipment and supplies” (+5%) which is on top of the 6% improvement last month. These consecutive bumps contributed significantly to the “New Reach” numbers for the Line of Most Severe Need. (Although not in the top 10, HEALTH is having significant improvements in other activities on the Line as well.)
Incremental improvements in all of the WASH activities in the top 10 and FSL’s successes should lay a strong foundation for 2026.
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 91% 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)
There was a LOT of switching around in the Top 20 Not Reached again this month. The smallest number of “Not Reached” went from 62,323 to 50,791. WASH “Water & waste water systems emergency support” and PRT “Protection Counseling” both dropped off the list.
In addition to the 5% improvement in HEALTH’s “Procure, pre-position and distribute….” Activity; there was also an 8% improvement in “Provide support to improving readiness, preparedness and response to all hazards….”.
Child Protection (CP) is making serious headway in the Mental Health and PsychoSocial Support category. Their “Individual and group” activity went from 68% to 74%. MHPSS has been a category of activity that has struggled to find human resources, the improvements in this activity is Very encouraging.
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
