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 · Saturday, 18 July 2026
221.5M
People in need of humanitarian assistance worldwide
Source · OCHA GHO + HPC
$20.0B gap
Funding shortfall across 2026 humanitarian response plans
Source · FTS / HPC
82.2M
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
16,003
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
40%
HRP coverage year-to-date
Source · FTS

Highest-risk countries right now: South Sudan (8.5), Somalia (8.1), Yemen (8.1), Congo, Democratic Republic of the (8.0), Chad (7.9), Afghanistan (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 · 2016–2026 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 · 2025 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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