Data Catalogue

The datasets behind PRISM.

Preservation archives, composite indicators and curated compilations — each with coverage, update cadence, source attribution and citation guidance. Aggregated feeds remain the intellectual property of their originating agencies; PRISM archives and composites are published under CC BY-SA 4.0.

PRISM preservation archive

IPC/CH Acute Food Insecurity Archive

Accumulating archive of IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) and Cadre Harmonisé analyses: national phase totals for current and projected periods, and sub-national …

National totals refreshed daily IPC Global Platform
PRISM preservation archive

INFORM Risk Index Time Series

Preserved snapshots of the INFORM Risk Index for 191 countries — hazard & exposure, vulnerability and lack of coping capacity dimensions with all component indicators — accumulated…

Refreshed daily European Commission JRC — DRMKC INFORM
PRISM preservation archive

INFORM Severity Index Archive

Snapshot archive of the ACAPS INFORM Severity Index — crisis-level severity scores for ~139 humanitarian crises, with impact, conditions and complexity components — preserved over …

Refreshed daily ACAPS
PRISM preservation archive

Aid Worker Security Archive

Accumulating archive of violence against humanitarian staff, held at incident level: aid workers killed, injured, kidnapped and detained, with country, sub-national location, coord…

Synced daily Humanitarian Outcomes, Aid Worker Security Database
PRISM preservation archive

Disaster Alert Archive

Accumulating archive of GDACS disaster alerts, held event by event: earthquakes, tropical cyclones, floods, volcanoes, droughts, wildfires and tsunamis, each with its alert level (…

Live feed synced hourly GDACS (EC JRC / UN OCHA)
PRISM preservation archive

Protection Risks Monitor Archive

Accumulating, curated archive of protection risk events — attacks on civilians, gender-based violence, forced displacement, denial of access and 11 further categories — with countr…

ACAPS synced twice daily ACAPS
PRISM preservation archive

Humanitarian Reports Archive

Accumulating archive of situation reports, analyses and updates published on OCHA ReliefWeb across the 74 countries with humanitarian needs overviews — each report captured with it…

Daily OCHA ReliefWeb
Curated compilation

Localisation & LNA Funding Compilation

Compilation of the evidence base on humanitarian funding to local and national actors: direct and indirect funding shares 2016–2024 (including and excluding UN partner data), overh…

Updated as source reports publish ODI HPG — Pearson & Rieger (2026)
Aggregated live feed

Humanitarian Funding Flows & Requirements

Live aggregation of OCHA Financial Tracking Service and Humanitarian Programme Cycle data: response plan requirements and coverage, CERF allocations, donor flows and multi-year fun…

Plan, CERF and donor caches every 6 hours OCHA FTS
Aggregated live feed

Internal Displacement & Population Data

Aggregation of internal displacement and population baselines: IDMC GIDD annual stock and flow figures, IDMC IDU preliminary 180-day displacement events, IOM DTM admin-1 displaceme…

IDMC snapshots refreshed monthly IDMC
Aggregated dataset

Conflict Event Aggregates

Monthly conflict event and fatality aggregates from ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data), 1997–present, global coverage, with admin-1/admin-2 resolution for every HRP count…

Monthly aggregates ACLED
Aggregated live feed

Protection Risk Monitoring

ACAPS protection event monitoring joined to the Global Protection Cluster's Protection Analytical Framework severity ratings across 15 protection risk categories, with country-leve…

Refreshed every 12 hours ACAPS Protection Monitoring
Aggregated live feed

Climate & Disaster Monitoring

Multi-source climate and disaster monitoring: GDACS live disaster alerts (every alert also preserved in the Disaster Alert Archive), NASA FIRMS active-fire detections (MODIS and VI…

GDACS ~15 minutes GDACS
Aggregated dataset

EU Migration & Asylum Statistics

Eurostat EU-27 migration and asylum series across six datasets: asylum and first-time applicants; and enforcement statistics covering third-country nationals refused entry, found i…

Refreshed automatically Eurostat
Curated compilation

EU Migration Funding Flows

EU migration-related funding traced by instrument, region and objective: the MigFund Dataset (Zardo, 2025) covering 1,700 EU-funded migration and asylum measures across four MFFs (…

Updated as dataset releases and EU budget data publish MigFund Dataset — Zardo, F. (2025), Zenodo
Aggregated live feed

OECD DAC Official Development Assistance

Official development assistance from the 33 OECD DAC donors: DAC1 aggregates and DAC2A bilateral flows by recipient, with recent years (2023–2025) fetched live from the OECD SDMX A…

On OECD publication (annual + advance releases) OECD DAC
Aggregated dataset

Multipurpose Cash Assistance Tracking

Multipurpose cash (MPC) requirements and funding identified from plan-level cluster data on the OCHA HPC API, 2020–2026, per country and year — tracing how much of each response pl…

Refreshed every 6 hours OCHA FTS / HPC
Annual compilation

GRFC Acute Food Insecurity (FSIN)

Global Report on Food Crises national series: population in IPC/CH Phase 3 or worse per country and year, compiled by the Food Security Information Network from IPC/CH and comparab…

Annual editions FSIN / Global Network Against Food Crises
PRISM preservation archive

Migration Signals Register

PRISM's register of European migration governance: one sourced row per signal, classified on 12 themes (arrivals and routes, border management, asylum procedure and reception, retu…

Weekly desk PRISM migration desk
PRISM preservation archive

PRISM Alerts

Movements that PRISM's rules detect in its own archives and an editor publishes: Phase 3+ change between comparable IPC analyses, a projection against its current period, Phase 5 a…

Detection after every refresh sweep IPC and Cadre Harmonisé
Preservation archive

UN Official Statistics Archive (development baseline)

Twelve annual development series for every country, read from the UN System Data Commons and preserved by PRISM with their revision history: Human Development Index, life expectanc…

Read daily UN System Data Commons (UNSD)
On-demand reference

UN System Data Commons (official statistics)

Annual official statistics from nineteen UN provenances, read on demand from the UN Statistics Division's Data Commons through its MCP interface: UNDP HDRO, UNODC, UNESCO, ILO, ITU…

Read on demand, cached one day UN System Data Commons (UNSD)
Aggregated live feed

UNICEF Child Well-being Indicators

Sixteen curated UNICEF indicators for 74 crisis-affected countries (2018–2025): under-5 mortality, stunting and wasting, out-of-school rates, child marriage, birth registration, sa…

Refreshed weekly from the UNICEF SDMX API UNICEF Data Warehouse (SDMX)
Aggregated live feed

Humanitarian Access Constraints

ACAPS humanitarian access monitoring: documented access impediments and constraint scoring across 77 monitored countries — covering access of people in need to aid, access of human…

Refreshed every 12 hours ACAPS Humanitarian Access
Aggregated live feed

ENSO State and Outlook

NOAA Climate Prediction Center products read daily and served together: the Oceanic Niño Index for every three-month season since 1950 with El Niño and La Niña episodes under NOAA'…

Read daily NOAA Climate Prediction Center, Oceanic Niño Index
Curated compilation

Drought Watch (3-month rainfall by admin 1)

For every admin 1 unit in the HDX HAPI rainfall feed (about 1,500 units in 127 countries), the last nine dekads of CHIRPS rainfall summed against the long-term average for the same…

Recomputed whenever the rainfall feed refreshes (daily sweep) OCHA HDX HAPI, rainfall (CHIRPS)
PRISM preservation archive

Anticipatory Action Ledger

Every anticipatory activation PRISM has seen, kept forever and keyed by the upstream code: IFRC Early Action Protocol activations and simplified EAPs from the GO appeals list, IFRC…

Refreshed daily IFRC GO
How to cite PRISM. For platform-level citation: PRISM (2026). Protection, Risk & Impact Severity Monitor. https://www.prismonitor.eu. Each dataset page carries its own suggested citation, including attribution for the originating agencies. Methodology for computed indicators is documented on the methodology page.