According to the United Nations's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Afghanistan Emergency Trust Fund was established in June 1988 by the Secretary-General.
It channeled funds received from donors for humanitarian activities in Afghanistan.
The fund supported the Office of the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, providing grants to non-governmental organizations working to address rehabilitation needs, and supporting humanitarian and economic development activities.
[1] In 2005 the fund supported an effort to make emergency repairs to the Chak E Wardak Dam in order to prevent an impending overflow.
[2][3] Since June 2007 it provided some funding to the United Nations Development Programme's Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction Project.