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Immediate Response Account
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 -2019
Use of Flexible (former Multilateral) and Immediate Response Account Funding - 2018
Use of Flexible (former Multilateral) and Immediate Response Account Funding - 2017
IRA Donors *
| Donors | US$ |
|---|---|
| Germany | 563,698 |
| Faroe Islands (Associate Member) | 230,943 |
| Liechtenstein | 112,360 |
| All Donors in 2021 as at 01/04/2021 | 907,000 |
IRA Allocations
| Allocations | US$ |
|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 11,267,605 |
| Bangladesh | 317,187 |
| Central African Republic | 1,658,363 |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 93,897 |
| Colombia | 424,627 |
| Ecuador | 346,971 |
| Egypt | 319,632 |
| M.East, C. Asia & E. Europe Bureau | 234,742 |
| Ethiopia | 16,901,369 |
| Guinea | 1,122,483 |
| Guatemala | 1,408,451 |
| Honduras | 281,601 |
| Liberia | 164,319 |
| Madagascar | 8,650,000 |
| Myanmar | 5,767,803 |
| Mozambique | 2,116,593 |
| Niger | 62,490 |
| Nigeria | 1,408,451 |
| Nicaragua | 256,155 |
| Palestine | 94,469 |
| West Africa Bureau | 93,897 |
| Sierra Leone | 93,897 |
| El Salvador | 0 |
| South Sudan | 277,430 |
| All Allocations in 2021 as at 01/04/2021 | 53,362,432 |