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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.

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$
Norway 13,418,016
Switzerland 7,717,751
Belgium 5,364,807
Germany 5,070,994
Qatar 5,000,000
France 4,366,812
Canada 2,212,389
Luxembourg 1,254,089
Liechtenstein 222,965
China 200,000
Democratic People's Republic of Korea 62,484
All Donors in 2023 as at 7/24/23 44,890,308
* See the Flexible Funding page for information on flexible resources more broadly.

IRA Allocations

Allocations US$
Afghanistan 9,389,672
Benin 650,000
Bangladesh 6,718,035
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 388,638
Côte d'Ivoire 1,000,000
Democratic Republic of the Congo 66,787,180
Colombia 1,690,586
Egypt 2,347,083
Ghana 820,000
Madagascar 2,347,418
Myanmar 15,935,716
Mozambique 10,587,456
Malawi 5,153,188
Nigeria 16,300,000
Peru 903,253
Rwanda 2,344,615
Sudan 20,000,000
Somalia 9,512,653
Syrian Arab Republic 25,352,113
Chad 8,563,871
Togo 1,410,000
Türkiye 46,982,277
Uganda 465,519
Zambia 800,000
All Allocations in 2023 as at 7/24/23 256,449,273