PRISM
PRISM publishes evidence-led humanitarian analysis and keeps a permanent record of protection incidents. Both are open to outside contributors — writers who bring an argument and the data behind it, and analysts who track what is happening in the countries they know.
The platform began by serving the big institutional datasets. Through its contributors it is learning to make its own record — because the humanitarian system funds what it can see, and what it can see is decided by who is allowed to know. The people best placed to describe a crisis are routinely handed a credibility deficit for knowing it firsthand. This desk judges what you can show, never who signed your credentials. Every contribution goes through editorial review; published work carries your byline, and every entry joins a record that accumulates and never deletes.
Free, and the same account you would use to read PRISM. Contributing is attached to a person, so there is no separate contributor login.
A short bio, your affiliation, and what the track asks for — an idea to write about, the countries you would cover, or your CV for the editing and engagement seats.
A person, not a filter. You hear either way, and a no always comes with a reason.
Write in the workspace, work with an editor on the draft, and approve the edited version before anything appears under your name.
You need a PRISM account before you can apply — it takes a minute, and applying happens from your profile afterwards.
Deep dives are argued pieces grounded in data — a claim, the evidence for it, and honest limits. You pitch an idea; if it is commissioned you draft in the workspace, an editor works with you on it, and nothing is published under your name until you have approved the edited version.
Analysts track protection incidents in the countries they cover, working from PRISM’s archive of situation reports. Entries are reviewed by an editor before they appear, and approved ones show on the country pages with your coverage behind them.
Editors hold the desk’s standard: they review pieces against the published criteria, work with authors on drafts, decide routed pitches, and review filed observations. Other people’s words, in your hands, with the handbook as the rulebook.
The intern carries PRISM’s public voice: managing the platform’s social media accounts, designing social cards from published content — sized for each platform — running the newsletter, and supporting audience management and strategy. Real tools and real responsibility from the first week, behind an onboarding call.
PRISM runs without funders and without a paywall. Its costs are carried privately, and every seat at the desk — the editor’s included — is voluntary at this stage. That independence is what lets the platform publish what the record shows.
What contributing carries: a real byline — on the piece, in the citation, and in the structured data search engines read; work preserved in an archive that accumulates and never deletes; and a hand in building the record this platform exists to make.
The full country dashboards and the public country hubs no longer require registration — severity, funding, displacement, food security and protection for 230+ countries.
An AI analyst whose answers are retrieved from PRISM's live datasets and report archive at the moment you ask — never from memory. Every figure carries a linked citation to its exact source, every answer ends with a “Reproduce this” trail of the queries it ran, and when the data can't answer, it says so.