The Cluster Approach is applied by the Humanitarian Coordinator and the Humanitarian Country Team to ensure greater predictability and accountability in humanitarian response in Afghanistan. Eleven clusters /humanitarian coordination forums are active at the national level and to varying degrees in the eight UN regions:

Early Recovery Network
Education Cluster,
Emergency Shelter and NFIs Cluster,
Emergency Telecommunications Cluster,
Food Security and Agriculture Cluster,
Health Cluster, 
Nutrition Cluster,
Protection Cluster, (Child Protection in Emergencies Sub-Cluster, Gender Based Violence Sub-Cluster)
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Cluster
Inter-Cluster Coordination Team
Humanitarian Country Team