WFP’s Platform for Real-time Impact and Situation Monitoring (PRISM) is a climate risk monitoring system that integrates geospatial data on hazards such as droughts, floods, tropical storms, and earthquakes, along with information on food insecurity and socioeconomic vulnerability, to inform disaster risk reduction and social assistance programs.
Through WFP’s technical assistance to government partners, PRISM can be adapted locally and handed over to strengthen governments’ disaster risk reduction capacity. PRISM is recognized as a Digital Public Good, supporting the achievement of the SDGs on poverty, food insecurity, disaster risk reduction and climate actions.
KEY OBJECTIVES
Open Data Access Layer ⤵️
Facilitates access to climate hazard data, enabling users to retrieve and share timely and relevant information.
Risk & Impact Analysis ⤵️
Combines hazard, vulnerability, and exposure data in one platform to deliver rapid, multi-dimensional risk assessments.
Real-Time Data Enhancement ⤵️
Enriches analysis with live data from ground sensors, mobile reporting, and remote sensing to reflect evolving conditions on the ground.
User-Centric Technology Platform ⤵️
Provides governments and partners with a modular, easy-to-configure system that is low-maintenance and adaptable to local needs.
KEY TECH FEATURES
Dashboard ⤵️
The PRISM dashboard is the main user interface, providing an interactive, map-based view of hazard, exposure, and vulnerability data. Users can explore time-sensitive datasets, such as droughts, floods, and earthquakes, by panning and zooming across areas of interest. The dashboard dynamically updates to show the most relevant information available, supporting timely and localised risk analysis.
Alerts module ⤵️
PRISM’s alerts module allows users to set up automated notifications when hazard thresholds are exceeded in specific locations. By defining hazard types, geographic focus, and trigger values (e.g. rainfall above 150 mm in 10 days), users receive timely alerts via email, prompting them to review data directly in the dashboard for faster response and decision-making.
On-demand data analysis ⤵️
The platform’s analysis engine enables users to combine multiple data layers, such as hazard exposure and vulnerability, to perform geospatial assessments. Using the analysis feature, PRISM generates rapid risk and impact insights, returning both tabular and mapped outputs directly to the dashboard for intuitive, actionable interpretation.