About PRISM

A comprehensive analytical platform for humanitarian crisis monitoring, protection risk assessment, and funding analysis

What and Why?

PRISM

Protection, Risk & Impact Severity Monitor

PRISM is a comprehensive humanitarian data platform that integrates 30+ authoritative datasets covering 950,000+ datapoints across 74 crisis-affected countries to provide evidence-based insights into humanitarian needs, protection risks, funding gaps, 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, migration policy, and aid localisation. The platform synthesizes data from leading humanitarian organizations including OCHA, UNHCR, ACLED, IPC, HDX HAPI, OECD DAC, and EU migration funding databases into a unified analytical framework.

74
Countries
30+
Datasets
950K+
Data Points
300M+
People in Need

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 disparate humanitarian datasets into a unified analytical framework with standardized ISO-3 country codes

Multi-Dimensional Analysis

Enabling analysis of protection risks, funding gaps, climate impacts, and displacement patterns simultaneously

Track Funding Flows

Monitoring humanitarian funding allocation, donor priorities, and aid effectiveness metrics in real-time

Identify Gaps

Highlighting underfunded crises, protection blind spots, and systemic inequities in humanitarian response

Support Localisation

Tracking progress toward Grand Bargain commitments and funding to local and national actors

Evidence-Based Research

Providing researchers with comprehensive data for analysis of humanitarian policy and funding dynamics

Migration Externalization Tracking

Monitoring 1,788 EU-funded migration measures (2000-2024) across MigFund and NDICI datasets with restrictiveness coding and policy analysis

GHO 2026 Comparison

Compare Global Humanitarian Overview 2025 vs 2026 data including requirements ($33.9B for 2026), people in need (243.3M), and prioritization analysis

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.

For Whom?

PRISM is designed for humanitarian professionals, policymakers, researchers, and advocates who need comprehensive, evidence-based analysis to inform their work:

Humanitarian Organizations

UN agencies, INGOs, and local CSOs conducting needs assessments, designing programs, and advocating for resources

Government Agencies

Donor governments and humanitarian affairs departments making funding allocation decisions

Coordination Bodies

OCHA, cluster coordinators, and humanitarian country teams conducting strategic planning

Researchers & Academics

Scholars studying humanitarian policy, funding dynamics, protection crises, and aid effectiveness

Journalists & Media

Reporters covering humanitarian crises, refugee situations, and international development

Advocacy Groups

Civil society organizations campaigning for equitable funding and improved humanitarian response

Whether you're conducting a country-level needs assessment, analyzing global funding trends, researching protection risks, or advocating for neglected crises, PRISM provides the integrated data and analytical tools you need.

Who

Umutcan Yüksel

Umutcan Yüksel

Creator of PRISM

Umutcan Yüksel is a humanitarian professional with over 10 years of experience in migration governance and protection programming in humanitarian settings. As Programme Specialist at European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (2017-2022), he supported the management of EU Facility for Refugees in Türkiye, identifying critical gaps between cash assistance and protection outcomes. He subsequently led multi-million EUR portfolios at international organisations including earthquake response operations.

He examines EU migration management, political economy of EU externalisation and migration funding dynamics at Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, as part of EU-Horizon Funded research project. He founded Integrity Consulting to advance localisation and evidence-based humanitarian programming. He has working experience in field research oversight, program evaluations, donor advocacy initiatives at field and HQ levels. His research on power dynamics in humanitarian aid and migration governance appears in various journals.

He has significant experience in big data analysis, qualitative (Nvivo and Python) and quantitative research techniques, data visualisation, protection monitoring and advocacy. As a Policy Leader Fellow at EUI, he conducts research on factors and parameters that influence donor decision-making and prioritisation in humanitarian funding allocation under severe resource constraints.

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