## 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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## Bibliographic details
- Published: August 13, 2025
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229019675.002

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### 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**
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_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2025/08/13/chad-request-for-a-four-year-arrangement-under-the-extended-credit-facility-press-release-569629_