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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$
Austria 6,493,506
Belgium 5,364,807
Germany 5,070,994
Private Donors 4,000,000
Luxembourg 1,245,937
Liechtenstein 219,539
All donors in 2024 as at 25/04/2024 22,394,783
* See the Flexible Funding page for information on flexible resources more broadly.

IRA Allocations

Allocations US$ Approval date
Afghanistan 469,484 02/01/2024
Bangladesh 469,484 02/01/2024
Haiti 2,816,901 20/03/2024
Lebanon 3,569,593 11/04/2024
Madagascar 469,484 02/01/2024
Mozambique 887,147 02/01/2024
Mozambique 2,347,416 28/03/2024
Palestine 563,380 02/03/2024
Chad 18,400,000 09/04/2024
All allocations in 2024 as at 25/04/2024 29,992,889