IMF Resilience and Sustainability Trust

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Overview

• The IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST) helps low-income and vulnerable middle-income countries build resilience to external shocks and ensure sustainable growth, contributing to their longer-term balance of payments stability.
• The RST complements the IMF’s existing lending toolkit by providing longer-term, affordable financing to address longer-term challenges, including climate change and pandemic preparedness.

Current RST Arrangements

• The following RST arrangements are approved (Country Name — Approved access (SDR million) — Approved access (% of quota) — Approval Date):
  • Costa Rica — 554 — 150 — 11/14/2022
  • Barbados — 142 — 150 — 12/7/2022
  • Rwanda — 240 — 150 — 12/12/2022
  • Bangladesh — 1,000 — 94 — 1/30/2023
  • Jamaica — 574 — 150 — 3/1/2023
  • Kosovo — 62 — 75 — 5/25/2023
  • Seychelles — 34 — 150 — 5/31/2023
  • Senegal — 243 — 75 — 6/26/2023
  • Niger — 99 — 75 — 7/5/2023
  • Kenya — 407 — 75 — 7/17/2023
  • Morocco — 1,000 — 112 — 9/28/2023
  • Moldova — 129 — 75 — 12/6/2023
  • Cabo Verde — 24 — 100 — 12/11/2023
  • Benin — 149 — 120 — 12/14/2023
  • Paraguay — 302 — 150 — 12/19/2023
  • Mauritania — 193 — 150 — 12/19/2023
  • Cameroon — 138 — 50 — 1/29/2024
  • Cote d'Ivoire — 976 — 150 — 3/15/2024
  • Tanzania — 597 — 150 — 6/20/2024
  • Madagascar — 244 — 100 — 6/21/2024
  • Papua New Guinea — 197 — 75 — 12/11/2024
  • Congo, Democratic Republic of — 800 — 75 — 1/15/2025
  • Egypt — 1,000 — 49 — 3/10/2025
  • Pakistan — 1,000 — 49 — 5/9/2025
  • Gambia, The — 47 — 75 — 6/18/2025
  • Jordan — 515 — 150 — 6/25/2025
  • Burkina Faso — 90 — 75 — 2/18/2026
  • Liberia — 194 — 75 — 4/27/2026

Highlights and Key Documents

• Policy Paper: Resilience and Sustainability Trust―2024 Contribution Agreements with Belgium, Malta, Qatar, and Switzerland
• Policy Paper: Resilience and Sustainability Trust – 2023 Contribution Agreements with Italy, Luxembourg, Oman, and the United Kingdom
• Policy Paper: 2023 Review of Resource Adequacy of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust, Resilience and Sustainability Trust, and Debt Relief Trusts (April 26, 2023)
• Policy Paper: Resilience And Sustainability Trust―2023 Contribution Agreements with Estonia, France, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, and The Netherlands (April 24, 2023)
• Press Release: 2023 Review of Resource Adequacy of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust, Resilience and Sustainability Trust, and Debt Relief Trusts (April 7, 2023)
• Policy Paper: 2022 Contribution Agreements with Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, And Spain
• The Resilience and Sustainability Trust: A Dialogue with Countries (December 13, 2022)
• IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva Announces Operationalization of the Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST) to Help Vulnerable Countries Meet Long-Term Challenges (October 2022)
• IMF Managing Director Welcomes the Creation of the Resilience and Sustainability Trust to Help Vulnerable Countries Meet Longer Term Challenges (April 2022)
• IMF Executive Board Approves Establishment of the Resilience and Sustainability Trust (April 2022)
• Statement by IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva at the Conclusion of a Meeting with UNECA and African Ministers of Finance and Central Bank Governors on the Impact of the Crisis in Ukraine (March 2022)
• IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva’s Statement at the Paris Peace Forum on Increasing Support for Vulnerable Countries via SDR Rechanneling (November 2021)
• Event: Reallocating SDRs: The Possibility for a Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST) (October 2021)

Focus Areas

• Climate Change
  • The IMF and Climate Change
  • Staff Climate Notes
  • Climate Public Investment Management Assessment (PIMA) Tool
  • IPPC Report: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change
• Pandemic Preparedness
  • The IMF and COVID-19
  • IMF Pandemic Plan
  • IMF-WHO Vaccine Tracker

RST Funding Status (as of July 28, 2025)

• Footnotes associated with funding status:
  • 1/ Where relevant, FX rates as of July 28, 2025.
  • 2/ The fundraising target of SDR 33 billion was set for contribution packages that provide resources to all three RST accounts (loan, deposit, and reserve accounts). A 'standalone contribution' refers to contributions to the deposit and/or reserve accounts, normally with a maturity of 10 years.
  • 3/ Contribution packages with effective agreements are reported as received once their deposit and reserve contributions have been both disbursed to the RST. Standalone contributions with effective agreements are reported as 'received' once they are disbursed.
• Aggregate funding figures (preserve original units):
  • Total pledges — 35.8 (In SDR billions) — 48.9 (In USD billions)
  • of which: contribution package with loan resources 2/ — 30.0 (In SDR billions) — 41.0 (In USD billions)
  • Contributions received 3/ — 34.2 (In SDR billions) — 46.7 (In USD billions)
  • of which: contribution package with loan resources — 28.6 (In SDR billions) — 39.1 (In USD billions)
• Country-level contributions (In SDR billions — In USD billions):
  • Australia — 0.93 — 1.27
  • Belgium — 0.67 — 0.91
  • Canada — 1.39 — 1.90
  • China — 6.00 — 8.20
  • France — 3.05 — 4.17
  • Italy — 1.92 — 2.63
  • Japan — 4.99 — 6.82
  • Korea — 0.90 — 1.23
  • Lithuania — 0.08 — 0.12
  • Luxembourg — 0.25 — 0.35
  • Malta — 0.02 — 0.03
  • Mauritius — 0.01 — 0.02
  • Netherlands — 2.91 — 3.97
  • Oman — 0.04 — 0.05
  • Qatar — 0.05 — 0.07
  • Spain — 2.90 — 3.96
  • United Kingdom — 2.50 — 3.42
  • of which: standalone contribution 2/ — 5.60 — 7.65
  • Estonia — 0.03 — 0.03
  • Germany — 5.06 — 6.91
  • Switzerland — 0.50 — 0.68
  • United Arab Emirates — 0.01 — 0.02

References

• Blog
• Paper
• 🆕 Policy Paper: Resilience and Sustainability Trust―2024 Contribution Agreements with Belgium, Malta, Qatar, and Switzerland
• Policy Paper: Resilience and Sustainability Trust – 2023 Contribution Agreements with Italy, Luxembourg, Oman, and the United Kingdom
• Policy Paper: 2023 Review of Resource Adequacy of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust, Resilience and Sustainability Trust, and Debt Relief Trusts (April 26, 2023)
• Policy Paper: Resilience And Sustainability Trust―2023 Contribution Agreements with Estonia, France, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, and The Netherlands (April 24, 2023)
• Press Release: 2023 Review of Resource Adequacy of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust, Resilience and Sustainability Trust, and Debt Relief Trusts (April 7, 2023)
• Policy Paper: 2022 Contribution Agreements with Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, And Spain
• The Resilience and Sustainability Trust: A Dialogue with Countries (December 13, 2022)
• IMF Managing Director Welcomes the Creation of the Resilience and Sustainability Trust to Help Vulnerable Countries Meet Longer Term Challenges (April 2022)
• IMF Executive Board Approves Establishment of the Resilience and Sustainability Trust (April 2022)
• Statement by IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva at the Conclusion of a Meeting with UNECA and African Ministers of Finance and Central Bank Governors on the Impact of the Crisis in Ukraine (March 2022)
• IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva’s Statement at the Paris Peace Forum on Increasing Support for Vulnerable Countries via SDR Rechanneling (November 2021)
• Funding: FAQs on the Resilience and Sustainability Trust
• Lending: Factsheet on the Resilience and Sustainability Facility
• The IMF and Climate Change
• Staff Climate Notes
• The IMF and COVID-19
• IMF Pandemic Plan
• IMF-WHO Vaccine Tracker