OCHA/UN Ukraine: Who Does What, Where (3W/5W) October 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).
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 58% of Prioritized Reach, or 2.8 million, as of October. Monthly New Reach was 83k, down 27% from September
Overall reach, in the Most Severe Needs Oblasts, is at 62%. . 58% of overall new reach, 48k, was in the Most Severe Needs Oblasts. The lowest percentage of New Reach was in March at 37% (when USAID rollbacks happened), compared to the high of 75% in February.
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 (+9%) and CHILD PROTECTION (+8%) were the biggest movers in October.
Slightly smaller improvements in the large target clusters: +7% improvements in HEALTH and MPCA are also encouraging.
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. EDUCATION got the biggest increase in funding, up 34% from September to 104%. CHILD PROTECTION got a big bump, now up to 25% funded. SHELTER/NFI and WASH also received more funding. MINE ACTION (277%), could be a very real indicator of preparations for future readiness. (I have no visibility into what is happening with the HEALTH numbers.)
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 October was in WASH.
“WASH interventions in institutions (i.e. schools, hospitals, and collective centers)” (+18%). +6% improvements in two of the top 3 Activities in WASH and HEALTH are Very impactful.
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)
The biggest news, this month is which activity is NOT on the Top 20, anymore “Provisions of multipurpose cash (MPCA),“ went from 61% in September to 82%, thereby dropping it off the “Not Reached” list. Hopefully Their successes can be replicated in other cash/voucher activities. “WASH NFI distributions (cash or voucher)” and SNFI “Emergency NFI support (cash-voucher)” are two in the Top 20 that could pack a punch with some help.
Another big cash/voucher mover is SNFI “Winter Heating (cash-voucher)” which moved from 15% to 76%, now outperforming “Winter Heating (in-kind)” at 39%.
HEALTH “Provide support to improve readiness, preparedness, and response to all-hazards, including winter readiness…” moved from 18% to 35% reached.
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