Friday, 23 October 2026About PRISM and its methods

PRISM reads humanitarian, migration and climate data on 230 countries and keeps the source and date of every figure.

Most entries in PRISM's record, last 14 days

Indicator Maps

8 indicators, each read from its own source at its own vintage. Pointing at a country outlines it and reads its value on every map.

Data catalogue

Updated 14 Oct 2026

Source: ACAPS INFORM Severity Index

End of 2025

Source: IDMC Global Internal Displacement Database

Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

Source: ACLED, aggregated data via HDX

Latest analysis per country

Source: IPC and Cadre Harmonisé

2025; CRED file of 21 Oct 2026

Source: CRED EM-DAT country profiles via HDX

January to July 2026

Source: Eurostat, migr_asyappctzm

INFORM Risk 2026

Source: European Commission JRC, INFORM Risk

Last 90 days · PRISM-original

Source: PRISM Alerts, Migration Signals and the protection register

Data Insights

Changes that PRISM Alerts detected in the feeds PRISM reads, each charted with the period that met the rule and the source it came from.

All PRISM Alerts

Armed conflict · Yemen · 16 Oct 2026

1,400 political violence events in Sep 2026, above the 90th percentile of the previous 24 months (418) (ACLED)

According to ACLED's Open-tier monthly aggregates via HDX, as of 9 October 2026, Yemen recorded 1,400 political violence events and 4,516 reported fatalities in September 2026, with 194 events involving civilian targeting and 514 civilian fatalities.

Political violence events per month. Source: ACLED, Open-tier monthly aggregates via HDX, as of 9 Oct 2026

Latest Analysis

Situation updates, deep dives and the weekly protection deck from PRISM's analysts and contributors.

All Insights

situation update

Flood Displacement Outlook for Somalia

By 19 October 2026, 29 rain stations in Somalia had reached or exceeded their October normal and the Shabelle at Jowhar had crossed its high flood-risk level, according to FAO SWALIM. IOM DTM and DRC project 874,319 people displaced between October and …

Umutcan Yuksel · 23 Oct 2026

opinion

Who Gets to Know? The Grand Bargain's Missing Commitment

This piece examines the production and control of knowledge in the humanitarian system as a less discussed dimension. The Grand Bargain's commitments on …

Umutcan Yuksel · 22 Oct 2026

situation update

Panama Earthquake Situation Update

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the Azuero Peninsula on 9 October 2026. By 12 October SINAPROC counted 2,164 families affected in 9 provinces, 506 of them …

Umutcan Yuksel · 13 Oct 2026

In Focus

Long-form stories built on PRISM's archives, and the Analyst that answers questions from the same data.