{"id":29547,"date":"2026-04-19T10:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=29547"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:59:35","slug":"ocha-emphasizes-funding-to-sustain-life-saving-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/04\/ocha-emphasizes-funding-to-sustain-life-saving-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"OCHA emphasizes funding to sustain life-saving aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Afghanistan has announced that $73.4 million has been allocated to 119 projects across the country to support Afghanistan\u2019s most vulnerable populations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"235\" data-end=\"625\">In a post on X on Sunday (April 19), the agency said the funds were spent over the past year to address both sudden-onset shocks and protracted humanitarian needs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"627\" data-end=\"797\">According to OCHA, humanitarian needs in Afghanistan are expected to remain high this year, and it emphasizes that timely, flexible funding is critical to sustaining life-saving aid.<\/p>\n<p>The UN agency had previously stated that in 2026, at least 21.9 million people in Afghanistan will require humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to OCHA, humanitarian needs in Afghanistan are expected to remain high this year, and it emphasizes that timely, flexible funding is critical to sustaining life-saving aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,9,984,979,6],"tags":[727,1797,1798],"class_list":["post-29547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-soceity","category-news","category-humanitarian-crisis","category-afghanistan","tag-ocha","tag-funding","tag-life-saving-aid"],"views":26,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29548,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29547\/revisions\/29548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}