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.

IRA Donors *
DonorsUS$
Switzerland7,973,935
Belgium5,706,572
Germany4,477,014
Canada1,699,997
Luxembourg556,174
China500,000
Liechtenstein100,200
France70,852
Greece10,516
Ireland5,291
All Donors in 2019 as at 01/04/202021,100,549
* In addition to donors who contribute directly to the IRA, WFP also depends on multilateral funds for the IRA. Please see the Multilateral Funding page for more information on multilateral donors.
IRA Allocations
AllocationsUS$
Angola352,538
Benin1,507,315
Burkina Faso9,043,240
Bangladesh3,133,774
Bahamas719,916
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)1,281,855
Central African Republic6,146,556
Democratic Republic of the Congo15,667,451
Congo67,113
Colombia1,829,451
Comoros1,000,000
Cuba268,380
Djibouti126,930
Dominican Republic143,981
Guatemala73,371
Honduras77,000
Haiti281,690
Iran (Islamic Republic of)631,480
Kenya0
East/Centr Africa Bureau562,866
Libya193,600
Lesotho938,967
Mali763,922
Myanmar8,981,785
Mozambique29,848,114
Mauritania2,786,955
Malawi1,408,450
Namibia1,408,450
Niger1,640,936
Nigeria1,188,078
Nicaragua74,300
Latin America & Caribbean Bureau170,000
Philippines1,608,014
Papua New Guinea221,674
Palestine4,700,000
Rwanda2,615,341
Senegal581,690
West Africa Bureau250,000
El Salvador206,631
Somalia3,181,862
South Sudan20,000,000
Eswatini938,955
Togo55,000
Asia and the Pacific Bureau136,370
United Republic of Tanzania191,904
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)299,852
Yemen25,291,392
Zimbabwe14,486,991
190,000
All Allocations in 2019 as at 01/04/2020167,274,141