Chad: Request for a Four-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Chad
IMF Staff Country Reports, August 13, 2025
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- Published: August 13, 2025
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229019675.002
Overview
- The paper presents Chad’s Request for a Four-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF).
- The financing package is a 48-month arrangement designed to support the authorities’ National Development Plan 2025-2030.
- Core program aims: ensure fiscal sustainability, create fiscal space for key development projects, increase targeted social spending, and improve governance and the business climate.
- The program is intended to help meet Chad’s balance of payment needs amid acute financing pressures.
Key challenges and drivers
- Humanitarian, climate, and security shocks are principal national challenges.
- Additional pressures include:
- volatile oil prices;
- declining official development assistance;
- an unprecedented influx of refugees from Sudan.
- These factors have:
- heightened balance-of-payment needs;
- strained public finances;
- intensified social and humanitarian pressures.
Reform priorities and program components
- Social inclusion and governance reforms are emphasized as essential to foster stronger and more balanced economic growth.
- Specific planned measures highlighted by the authorities:
- expand biometric identification;
- implement a unified social registry to improve delivery of social protection.
- Governance reforms in the oil sector are underscored to:
- enhance transparency;
- enhance accountability.
Expected outcomes and policy objectives
- Fiscal objectives:
- ensure fiscal sustainability;
- create fiscal space for priority development projects.
- Social objectives:
- increase targeted social spending;
- improve social protection delivery through biometric ID expansion and a unified social registry.
- Institutional objectives:
- improve governance and the business climate, with particular attention to the oil sector.
Publication metadata and scale
- Pages: 141
- Volume: 2025
- Issue: 236
- Series: Country Report No. 2025/236
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229019675.002
- ISBN: 9798229019675
- ISSN: 1934-7685
International Monetary Fund. Chad: Request for a Four-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Chad (Country Report No. 2025/236).
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- Chad: IMF 48-month ECF Arrangement