PRISM
PRISM is a comprehensive humanitarian data platform that integrates 50+ authoritative datasets covering 1.5 million+ datapoints across 200+ countries to provide evidence-based insights into humanitarian needs, protection risks, funding gaps, climate-related disasters, migration externalization, and aid effectiveness.
Built to address critical gaps in humanitarian analysis, PRISM enables users to explore the complex interplay between humanitarian crises, protection risks, funding allocation, climate hazards, migration policy, and aid localisation. The platform synthesizes data from leading organizations including OCHA, UNHCR, ACLED, IPC, HDX HAPI, OECD DAC, EM-DAT, GDACS, ASAP, Eurostat, and EU migration funding databases into a unified analytical framework.
Why PRISM? The humanitarian sector faces unprecedented challenges: record levels of need, persistent funding gaps, and growing complexity of crises. Yet decision-makers often lack integrated tools to analyze these challenges holistically. PRISM was created to:
Integrate Fragmented Data
Bringing together 50+ disparate humanitarian, climate, and migration datasets into a unified analytical framework with standardized ISO-3 country codes
Climate Change & Disasters
Animated disaster impact maps, GDACS real-time alerts, EM-DAT 6,400+ events (2000-2025), rainfall anomaly monitoring, food security hotspot heatmaps, and climate exposure profiling across 195 countries
Protection Risk Analysis
Protection risk severity scoring, 15+ risk categories, ACLED conflict index, aid worker security tracking, and country-level protection event monitoring with CSV export
Track Funding Flows
Monitoring humanitarian funding via FTS, CERF, CBPF, and OECD DAC ($212B+ ODA across 32 DAC countries) — from donor contributions to country-level allocations
Migration Externalization
Monitoring 1,788 EU-funded migration measures (2000-2023) across MigFund and NDICI datasets with restrictiveness coding, policy analysis, and country deep dives
EU Migration Statistics
Eurostat EU-27 enforcement pipeline — asylum applications, border refusals, ordered-to-leave, return rates (voluntary vs. forced), and quarterly trend analysis (2016-2024)
Support Localisation
Tracking Grand Bargain commitments (25% funding target, multi-year funding, women-led organizations), 38 localisation initiatives, and 69 NGO-led pooled funds (ICVA mapping study)
CBPF Pooled Funds
Country-Based Pooled Fund analysis (2024-2026) — allocations, contribution flows, partner breakdowns, and organization type distribution across active humanitarian operations
GHO 2026 Comparison
Compare Global Humanitarian Overview 2025 vs 2026 data including requirements ($33.9B for 2026), people in need (243.3M), and hyper-prioritization analysis
Identify Gaps & Inequities
Highlighting underfunded crises, protection blind spots, climate-vulnerable populations, and systemic inequities in humanitarian response and funding allocation
PRISM emerged from research examining power dynamics in humanitarian funding allocation, particularly under conditions of severe resource constraints. The platform makes visible the "cruel math of aid cuts" - the difficult prioritization decisions that determine which crises receive attention and which do not.
