REACH Ukraine 2025 Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA) - Dataset

Three years after the escalation of the war in February 2022, the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine remains severe and complex. The 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP) estimates that 12.7 million people—one in three Ukrainians—require humanitarian assistance. As of June 2025, there were 3.8 million internally displaced people, 4.1 million returnees, and 5.6 million Ukrainian refugees worldwide. Hostilities continue in the North, East, and South, while missile and drone attacks intensified in April–May 2025, increasing civilian casualties. Ongoing attacks on infrastructure and productive assets from 2024 to 2025 have disrupted essential services such as electricity, heating, water, sanitation, healthcare, and education. REACH’s 2024 Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA) found widespread needs nationwide, with over 80% of households in need in at least one sector and 29% in extreme need. The conflict has worsened socioeconomic vulnerabilities, particularly in livelihoods, protection, and health, with frontline and border areas most affected. Needs also vary by age, gender, and disability.The current situation has been further strained by a sudden and significant decrease in humanitarian funding due to the United States Government’s suspension of humanitarian programmes in January 2025. To adapt to these shifting circumstances, the humanitarian community in Ukraine carried out a re-prioritization of the 2025 HNRP, structured around four strategic priorities: (i) supporting the most vulnerable in front line regions, (ii) supporting evacuations, (iii) emergency response after strikes, and (iv) assisting the most vulnerable among the IDPs.Against this backdrop of widespread vulnerabilities, decreased funding capacities, and new strategic priorities of the humanitarian response in Ukraine, REACH Ukraine implemented the 2025 MSNA in collaboration with the Inter-Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to gather updated and accurate information on needs and vulnerabilities and continue informing the humanitarian response.The 2025 MSNA intends to provide updated and representative multi-sectoral data on the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine to inform strategic decision-making of the HCT, ICCG, and Humanitarian Clusters and to guide the programmatic and operational planning of international and local partners. In Ukraine, the MSNA is a key source of evidence for humanitarian response planning and is expected to directly inform the 2026 HNRP, including People-in-Need (PiN) calculations, severity rankings, and geographic targeting. The assessment gathers individual- and household-level data to measure the prevalence and severity of needs, along with their underlying drivers. It explores how needs differ by geographic area and key demographic characteristics, including gender, age, disability, household composition, and displacement status. Additionally, the MSNA collects information on accountability to affected populations offering insights into the impact of reduced humanitarian funding on affected communities.The 2025 MSNA contributes to building an evidence base in support to the strategic priorities of the re-prioritized humanitarian planning, providing granular data to measure humanitarian needs along the front line and border regions, and measuring variations in severity and prevalence of needs among conflict affected displaced groups (e.g. returnee households, IDP households), in an attempt to inform the identification and targeting of the most vulnerable along the frontline and IDP households. Source: REACH Initiative