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Overview

Chinese Government disburses RMB 500 million in grant assistance - via an October 2014 ETCA - to Afghanistan (Linked to Record ID#54451)

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$83,222,583
Commitment Year•2014Country of Activity•AfghanistanDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•AfghanistanSector•Unallocated/unspecifiedFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Pipeline: Commitment

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Oct 28, 2014

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • China Ministry of Commerce

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Afghanistan

Loan desecription

Chinese Government disburses RMB 500 million in grant assistance - via an October 2014 ETCA - to Afghanistan (Linked to Record ID#54451)

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On October 28, 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping and President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani signed an Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) in which the Chinese Government committed to providing RMB 500 million in grant funding to the Government of Afghanistan in 2014 (as captured by this project) and another RMB 1.5 billion in grant funding from 2015 to 2017 . On April 5, 2015, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan announced that China would send a team to Afghanistan to draw up the framework for the disbursement of the RMB 2 billion .

Staff comments

It is likely that the grant funding committed by this ETCA was used in various Chinese Government-funded projects after 2014. As this is an ETCA, which is a financing mechanism specific to China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), AidData has coded MOFCOM as the specific Chinese Government institution responsible for providing this grant.