INFORM Annual Report 2021

This report sets out INFORM’s vision for a suite of products to support decision-making that are easy to use and open to everyone. This vision involves bringing scientific rigour to the process of analysing crises and pooling expertise to develop shared methodologies. By working together, we can reduce the investments required by individual organisations, assure the quality of our analysis and make it available for the common good.

This report assesses:

1. The INFORM Risk Index
   The INFORM Risk Index is the first global, objective and transparent tool for understanding the risk of humanitarian crises and disasters. It can help identify where and why a crisis might occur, which means we can reduce the risk, build peoples’ resilience and prepare better for when crises do happen.

2. The INFORM Severity Index
   The INFORM Severity Index summarises a wide range of already existing, quantitative information about crisis severity and presents it in a format that can be used more easily in decision-making. It aggregates information from a range of credible, publicly available sources, such as UN agencies, governments and other multilateral organisations. Human analysts collect the data and enter it into the Index. It is intended to lead to a shared and objective understanding of crisis severity that can support decisions on the allocation of resources and ensure all people affected by crises receive appropriate assistance.