Kabul Institute · Afghanistan Aid Tracker
Who gets the aid money in Afghanistan?
Since August 2021, billions have been promised to Afghanistan. Far less has been paid, and most of it disappears from view after the first hand-over. The Afghanistan Aid Tracker follows the money as far as the public record allows, and shows exactly where the trail stops.
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Source: OCHA Financial Tracking Service and Humanitarian Programme Cycle. Figures name their stage and are never added together.
The Funding Gap
What was needed, and what was paid
Each column is one year's humanitarian plan. The blue part was reported as paid. The red part was required but never funded.
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| Year | Required | Reported paid | Unfunded |
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Search the 25 largest donors and recipients. The full tracker covers every organization in the record, with every flow, comparison and disclosure detail.
Need Across Afghanistan
People in need, province by province
Darker means more people in need. Hover or click a province for its figure.
Source: HDX HAPI (OCHA), province level only.
The Money Trail
Where the trail stops
The five largest donors, the five largest first recipients, and what those recipients report passing on. The red band is money that leaves the public record. That is not proof of wrongdoing. It means nobody discloses where it went next.
Trace any organization's money in and money out in the full tracker.
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The Report
Who Gets the Aid Money in Afghanistan
The first report in Kabul Institute’s accountability series. Compiled from primary sources by the Afghanistan Aid Tracker. Data as of 30 September 2026. Every figure is a number a funder or agency published — nothing modelled or filled in.
- $8.00 billion confirmed paid since August 2021 — and $0 confirmed as programme-level expenditure in any machine-readable public source.
- Only 9.0% of paid funds can be traced past the first recipient. $1.42 billion was paid to recipients disclosed only as “Confidential.”
- A further $12.04 billion in development finance commitments sits with no payment data published at all.
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How We Count
Public sources only
OCHA Financial Tracking Service, OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle, HDX HAPI, IATI and SIGAR audits. Every number links to a checkable source.
Stages never added together
A pledge, a payment and a hand-over can be the same dollars. Every figure names its stage, and we never add them up.
Missing data is a finding
If an institution does not say where money went next, we do not pretend it was delivered. Undisclosed is published as undisclosed, not as zero.
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