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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.

Annual Report on Flexible Funding in 2022

Use of Flexible (former Multilateral) and Immediate Response Account Funding - 2021

Use of Flexible (former Multilateral) and Immediate Response Account Funding - 2020

Use of Flexible (former Multilateral) and Immediate Response Account Funding - 2019

Use of Flexible (former Multilateral) and Immediate Response Account Funding - 2018

Use of Flexible (former Multilateral) and Immediate Response Account Funding - 2017

View the historical funding for flexible contributions

View the historical funding for Immediate Response Account 

IRA Donors *

Donors US$
Germany 21,482,372
United States of America 15,000,000
Switzerland 8,083,141
Private Donors 7,132,726
France 6,500,542
Austria 6,493,506
Belgium 5,364,807
Canada 1,461,988
Luxembourg 1,245,937
Norway 935,716
Liechtenstein 219,539
China 200,000
All donors in 2024 as at 20/11/2024 74,120,276
* See the Flexible Funding page for information on flexible resources more broadly.

IRA Allocations

Allocations US$ Approval date
Afghanistan 469,484 02/01/2024
Burundi 1,490,187 29/04/2024
Burundi 623,600 01/11/2024
Bangladesh 469,484 02/01/2024
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,090,000 27/09/2024
Caribbean Community 400,000 28/06/2024
Caribbean Community 1,800,000 09/07/2024
Caribbean Community 700,000 17/07/2024
Côte d'Ivoire 166,197 18/11/2024
Cameroon 4,714,673 27/09/2024
Cuba 281,690 12/07/2024
Cuba 1,396,670 31/10/2024
Dominican Republic 300,000 12/07/2024
Ethiopia 10,000,000 09/07/2024
Guinea 750,386 13/11/2024
Haiti 2,816,901 20/03/2024
Haiti 900,982 02/05/2024
Lebanon 3,569,593 11/04/2024
Lebanon 2,200,000 02/08/2024
Lebanon 17,744,835 22/10/2024
Liberia 1,330,021 29/07/2024
Sri Lanka 200,000 25/07/2024
Lesotho 2,000,000 26/09/2024
Madagascar 469,484 02/01/2024
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 937,181 14/08/2024
Mozambique 887,147 02/01/2024
Mozambique 2,347,416 28/03/2024
Mozambique 7,700,000 26/09/2024
Nigeria 3,092,658 03/10/2024
Nicaragua 187,793 03/10/2024
Peru 487,482 11/10/2024
Philippines 2,337,840 28/10/2024
Palestine 563,380 02/03/2024
Rwanda 281,690 01/11/2024
Sudan 18,400,000 24/06/2024
Sudan 37,558,685 30/08/2024
Senegal 72,890 31/10/2024
South Sudan 4,694,836 09/05/2024
Chad 18,400,000 09/04/2024
Yemen 17,840,376 10/05/2024
Zambia 1,840,419 26/04/2024
Zimbabwe 621,768 15/05/2024
All allocations in 2024 as at 20/11/2024 174,135,748