An open backbone for humanitarian, migration and climate data.

Where most humanitarian dashboards present a slice — funding alone, displacement alone, one agency's view of the operation — PRISM joins them. INFORM severity sits next to FTS coverage; ACLED conflict events sit next to IOM DTM displacement totals; the GHO appeal sits next to the actual ReliefWeb reports that justify it. Decisions stop happening in isolation; trade-offs become visible. The current stage addresses an integration gap and a missing evidence base for human rights monitoring.

The platform synthesises data from OCHA (FTS, HPC.tools, CERF, CBPF), ACAPS, ACLED, UNHCR, World Bank, UNICEF, IOM DTM, IDMC, IPC, INFORM (JRC DRMKC), GPC, OECD DAC, HDX HAPI, EM-DAT, GDACS, NASA FIRMS, ReliefWeb, Copernicus ERA5, ASAP, Eurostat, and the EU migration-funding databases — refreshed in cycles ranging from 15 minutes to 24 hours. Contributors are expanding; the researcher community is growing.

Humanitarian data infrastructures are rarely examined as sites of epistemic politics. Yet the categories through which need is assessed — who counts as 'refugee' versus 'migrant', what constitutes 'protection risk', which actors produce 'legitimate' knowledge — are not neutral inputs into resource allocation decisions. They are products of unequal epistemic arrangements that systematically marginalise crisis-affected populations and local responders while embedding institutional hierarchies into algorithmic form.

PRISM in its current form is not, and has never been, the end objective. The current stage addresses the integration gap. The next stage is to take the platform further — to integrate more secondary data, and, more importantly, to collect its own data. To democratise knowledge. To amplify the voices of local actors in a space dominated and ruled by the cruel nature of political actors.

It plugs into the data-collection tools field teams already use, anonymises records on the way in, encrypts them end to end, and triangulates the findings against PRISM's wider humanitarian and development data. The result is usable evidence the same day data lands: real-time data-quality monitoring and enumerator KPIs for large-scale surveys, a single dashboard for cross-country prioritisation, and donor-proposal intelligence trained on 25 institutional donors' rules.

Each project is private to its assigned team and never appears publicly. Dashboards show aggregate findings only, with no personal data.