Chad Public Expenditure Review in the Agricultural, Rural Development, and Food Security Sector

Abstract

Over the review period covered by this
 report (2003-2012), the budget allocated to agriculture
 increased noticeably more than the sector’s contribution to
 GDP. This reflects a notable effort by the Chad authorities
 to increase the budget to boost this sector’s development in
 recent years. In this proactive context, Chad signed its
 CAADP compact in December 2013 to continue supporting
 agriculture’s revival. The CAADP is being implemented in
 Chad even as the terms of the National Rural Sector
 Investment Program (PNISR, 2014-2020) are being finalized.
 Within the context of the CAADP, the Government of Chad
 (GOC) wished to undertake a review of public agriculture
 expenditures to learn from past budgetary implementation in
 this sector with a view to improving future program
 performance. Following a request by the Ministry of
 Agriculture and Irrigation (MoAI), the NEPAD planning and
 coordination agency gave Chad it’s backing for this review.
 This process was undertaken by the Program for Strengthening
 National Comprehensive Agricultural Public Expenditure in
 Sub-Saharan Africa, co-financed by the Bill and Melinda
 Gates Foundation and the CAADP Multi-Donor Trust Fund. This
 program, implemented by the World Bank, aims to improve the
 impact of the still-limited public resources available to
 governments in Sub-Saharan Africa to foster agricultural
 development and reduce poverty in rural areas, where most of
 the poor in these countries, notably Chad, live. This study
 follows and builds upon a number of similar studies
 conducted in recent years on public expenditure management,
 in particular in Chad the Action Plan for the Modernization
 of Public Finances (PAMFIP). However, these studies have
 focused on budget management as a whole, and none to date
 has looked at the agricultural sector specifically.