The member countries fund the commission's $1 million annual budget based on an agreed-upon formula: Nigeria 52%, Cameroon 26%, Chad 11%, Niger 7%, the Central African Republic 4%.
[4][5] The commission's Basin Committee for Strategic Planning (BCSP), coordinates local activities between the member states.
The definition says it excluded the majority of the terminal depression consisting of desert that provides little or no effective hydrological contribution to the Conventional Basin.
The aim is to create a network of national and regional conservation areas in the Chad Basin and to set up institutions dedicated to their sustainable management.
In this connection the Chad Wetlands Initiative (CHADWET) was launched in June 2003, organized by the Ramsar Bureau and its Mediterranean Coordination Unit.