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UNDP, with funding from the Special Trust Fund for Afghanistan (STFA), implemented several projects aimed at increasing the resilience of communities on preventing flash floods and training locals for disaster risk preparedness, response, and recovery.

This April and May, large regions of central Asia were hit by a series of storms resulting in heavy downpours and flash flooding. The unusually high rains and subsequent floods in April and May followed a three-month dry period from December to March.

The purpose of this interview is to inform strategic discussion among WMO Members on how to Integrate the flash flood guidance system into national policies, strategies, and planning.

This early action plan has been closely monitoring the climate situation in Afghanistan since January 2024 to assess the risk of drought conditions.

This PDNA report provides an assessment of the severe impacts of the earthquakes which struck Herat, Afghanistan in October 2023, and provides a vision and guiding principles for recovery.

The objective of the assessment is to develop a 2 model-based estimate of the direct physical damages to buildings and infrastructure and evaluate the spatial distribution of damages to support the development of a roadmap for recovery and reconstruction.

This report summarizes the development of the Afghanistan Drought Early Warning Decision Support (AF-DEWS) Tool, a cloud-based online platform, to provide decision-makers with maps and data to enable further analysis.

Severe droughts are exacerbating Afghanistan's humanitarian crisis, but funding for climate change adaptation is frozen.