PRISM v5.0 Thursday, 10 September 2026

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Global Crisis Severity Index

MapINFORM Risk 2026 · refreshed 9 Sep 2026

INFORM severity

Critical (8–10)

Severe (5–7)

Watched (3–4)

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One coherent view of global crisis, read across fourteen dashboards.

Each module draws from the same live data lake, so funding, conflict, displacement and severity can be cross-read in a single session.

01 Severity

Composite severity across 74 crisis countries, scored weekly.

INFORM Risk, ACAPS severity and ACLED intensity rolled into one comparable index, with per-country trend lines back to 2021.

Top-6 INFORM severity · live from JRC DRMKC

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02 Funding

Every dollar paid, as OCHA FTS reports it.

Inside vs outside coordinated plans, straight from the FTS by-year endpoint — the same feed powering the dashboard's FTS trends chart. Totals reconcile to the FTS public headline.

Inside plans Outside plans Total

2026 total: $21.8B

FTS by-year — same source as the /dashboard FTS Funding Trends chart

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03 Displacement

IDMC GIDD: 83M displaced and rising.

Annual IDP stock, conflict vs disaster, straight from IDMC's Global Internal Displacement Database.

Annual IDP stock · IDMC GIDD ■ Conflict · ■ Disaster

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04 OECD DAC

The Rise & Fall of 33 DAC donors.

2025 ODA vs 2024 change, bubble-sized by ODA/GNI. Patched with the official OECD advance release until DAC2A publishes.

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05 Conflict

ACLED, 1997–present.

Monthly conflict event aggregates back to 1997 from ACLED's Open-tier data downloads, 198-country coverage, with admin1 / admin2 resolution for every HRP country.

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06 Protection

14,335 protection events, 10 categories.

ACAPS events joined to GPC severity scores, with Sankey flows from risk type to population affected.

Top 10 protection-risk categories · live from ACAPS (rolling 24 mo.)

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07 Climate

3,834 disaster events, 10-year window.

EM-DAT annual trend, GDACS live alerts, NASA FIRMS active wildfires, HAPI rainfall anomalies and Copernicus ERA5 temperature anomalies — almost all refreshed live.

Annual disaster events · EM-DAT ■ Climate & geophysical

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08 Eurostat

672,345 first-time applicants.

Eurostat asylum applications, enforcement (refused entry, ordered to leave, returned) and EU-27 migration flows. Most recent annual figure across all reporting Member States.

First-time asylum applicants · Eurostat EU-27 (FRST series)

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The daily proof Snapshot · Thursday, 10 September 2026 · 18:14 UTC · refreshed every 6–24 hours

221.5M

People in need of humanitarian assistance worldwide

Source · OCHA GHO + HPC

$16.5B gap

Funding shortfall across 2026 humanitarian response plans

Source · FTS / HPC

82.5M

Internally displaced people at end of latest GIDD year (stock)

Source · IDMC GIDD

$174.3B

Total ODA reported by the 33 DAC donors in 2025

Source · OECD DAC

19,400/mo

ACLED conflict events recorded in the most recent month

Source · ACLED

15,343

Protection events across 15 risk categories, rolling 24 mo.

Source · ACAPS

$2.0B

Multipurpose cash assistance programmed across 23 countries in 2026

Source · FTS cluster

52%

HRP coverage year-to-date

Source · FTS

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Ask any humanitarian question.

Ask the data itself.

One coherent view of global crisis, read across fourteen dashboards.

Composite severity across 74 crisis countries, scored weekly.

Every dollar paid, as OCHA FTS reports it.

IDMC GIDD: 83M displaced and rising.

The Rise & Fall of 33 DAC donors.

ACLED, 1997–present.

14,335 protection events, 10 categories.

3,834 disaster events, 10-year window.

672,345 first-time applicants.

The data, told as a story.

Twelve years of documented protection risks

The Grand Bargain, against its own record

Analysis that reads the data behind the headline.

Deleting self-reliance: what the SOHS 2026 finding looks like in a donor's own funding texts

El Nino 2026-27 in Eastern and Southern Africa

Nepal Flash Floods Situation Update

Middle East Situation Update #4

Aid Worker Security in 2025

Written by the people who work the data.

Training, built by the people doing the work.

Data and Anticipation: Reading Crises Before They Erupt

Protection Mainstreaming and the centrality of Protection

Mastering DG ECHO

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