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What is the Immediate Response Account?

The Immediate Response Account (IRA) is WFP’s life-saving funding facility, which allows WFP to rapidly respond to emergencies. IRA-financed assistance can be deployed within 24 hours of the onset of a crisis.

What is the importance of the IRA?

Contributions to the IRA have the highest degree of flexibility and are non–earmarked. This allows WFP’s executive leadership to identify priority operations. As it consists of multilateral funding, the IRA reinforces the principles of timeliness, predictability and flexibility.

Explore the Annual Reports on Flexible Funding.

IRA Donors *

Donors US$
Germany 13,924,051
Private Donors 450,000
All donors in 2025 as at 21/02/2025 14,374,051
* See the Flexible Funding page for information on flexible resources more broadly.

IRA Allocations

Allocations US$ Approval date
361,502 02/01/2025
Burundi 187,793 01/01/2025
Côte d'Ivoire 110,798 01/01/2025
Mozambique 938,925 03/01/2025
Mozambique 4,694,836 10/01/2025
Palestine 40,000,000 30/01/2025
Rwanda 158,811 01/01/2025
All allocations in 2025 as at 21/02/2025 46,452,665