2026 Review of IMF Program Design and Conditionality
Public Consultation | March 26, 2026–May 14, 2026
This Public Consultation is Open from March 26, 2026–April 30, 2026 (extended to May 14, 2026)
Take the Survey in: English | French | Spanish | Arabic
The 2026 Review of Program Design and Conditionality (ROC) is the first review to take place since the COVID pandemic. The review aims to ensure that IMF-supported programs help our member countries restore medium-term external viability and build resilience against the backdrop of an uncertain and evolving international context by resolving balance of payments imbalances, rebuilding policy space, and strengthening policy frameworks. These are critical to safeguarding macroeconomic stability and fostering sustainable and inclusive growth. The review will center on the following main themes: implementing realistic, credible, and balanced macroeconomic adjustment, ensuring robust program design under high uncertainty, encouraging timely engagement with the Fund, resolving cases of persistent balance of payments needs, and adequacy of program financing.
We have already invited CSOs and the private sector to complete a survey. We are once again renewing our invitation to share their views through this public consultation open to all non-media stakeholders.
About this Public Consultation Process
As part of the 2026 ROC, consultation with non-media and non-governmental stakeholders has unfolded in three stages.
Phase 1. Awareness Raising Meeting. A virtual session to introduce the review and consultation process took place on July 17, 2025. You can find the presentation here.
Phase 2. Online surveys. Stakeholders’ views solicited through online surveys primarily aimed at country authorities, IMF Executive Directors, IMF Mission Chiefs, private sector representatives, and CSOs (Fall 2025) and public consultation open to all stakeholders (Spring 2026). This public consultation seeks to collect written inputs from participants through an open-ended survey centered around key questions, available in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic.
Phase 3. Follow-up discussion(s). Virtual/hybrid meeting(s) with those who participated in phase 2 of the consultation (online survey) to share findings, dig deeper into the feedback received, and provide updates on the whole review process.
Public Consultation Open to all Stakeholders
Below is the link to the survey questions for public consultation. There are 5 survey questions, Completing the survey should take approximately 20 minutes. If you would like to work on your answers before submitting the form, you can download the survey questions here. However, please kindly note that all responses to the survey must be submitted electronically, without exception, through the online form ideally by April 21, 2026, and no later than April 30, 2026.
Take the Survey: English | French | Spanish | Arabic
Stakeholders from all over the world covered by the 2015 Guidelines on the IMF Staff Engagement with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are invited to participate in the consultation process. This includes:
