Global instrument

The world's crises, in one operating picture.

Severity, funding, displacement and access — pulled live from the instruments humanitarians already use, surfaced together so the trade-offs between needs and resources become visible at a glance. Click any country on the map to open its full PRISM profile.

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Key figures · Thursday, 10 September 2026
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

Highest-risk countries right now: South Sudan (8.3), Somalia (8.2), Congo, Democratic Republic of the (8.0), Afghanistan (7.8), Sudan (7.8), Chad (7.8). Scores are the JRC INFORM Risk Index (0–10); the interactive map and per-country trends below carry the full picture.

Funding flows OCHA FTS
Where the money actually goes — and where it doesn't.

Total humanitarian funding tracked by OCHA's Financial Tracking Service, year by year. The peaks are visible; the structural gaps are too.

Composite severity · INFORM Risk Index ACAPS · OCHA · ACLED · IPC
The crisis map, as the instruments see it.

The INFORM Risk Index (0–10) projected onto the world map. Hover to read each country's underlying signals — People in Need, recent ACLED activity, IPC food insecurity. Click to open the full country analysis.

Underfunded crises · annual ranking Humanitarian Funding Forecast →
Where appeals stayed loudest about least money.

Coordinated response plans ranked by funding coverage — the bottom of the list is where humanitarian decision-makers consistently fail to close the gap, year after year. Methodology adapted from the Underfunded Crisis Index published by the Humanitarian Funding Forecast.

Access constraints ACAPS Humanitarian Access
Where aid workers cannot get in — and where civilians cannot get out.

The ACAPS Humanitarian Access Index ranks 100+ countries on impediments to humanitarian assistance: bureaucratic restrictions, active conflict, physical access constraints, attacks on aid workers.

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