[2] According to the Afghan government's estimates, 42 percent of the Afghanistan's total population lives below the poverty line.
The Afghanistan Living Conditions Survey (ALCS) reported that the national poverty rate has risen from 38% in 2011–12 to 55% in 2016–2017, with the slowing economic growth and a deteriorating security situation as two causes.
[5] Despite this cry against foreign aid, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) published that in the 2018 Afghanistan Humanitarian Response Plan an estimated $83,368,135 will be donated to the food security and agriculture sector of the economy.
An analysis of the effectiveness of this plan revealed that while the plan was successful in implementing the package to both disabled or female-headed households, the impoverished were still barred off from health centers, hospitals, and private providers that required out-of-pocket payments.
[12] The United Nations Human Refugee Agency (UNHCR) issued a post-return shelter assistance program to assist displaced Afghans coming back to Afghanistan after being refugees in neighboring countries.
The provinces with the most multidimensionally poor were Herat, Nangarhar, Kandahar, Kunduz and Faryab.