Overview

Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund provides emergency food aid to Burkina Faso

Commitment Year•2023Country of Activity•Burkina FasoDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•Burkina FasoSector•Emergency ResponseFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Mar 3, 2023

Start (actual): Mar 3, 2023

End (actual): Mar 3, 2023

Geospatial footprint

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This project provided emergency food aid to Burkina Faso. The aid was provided to the Sahel region of Burkina Faso. More detailed locational information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1159873.

Stakeholders

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

Funding agencies

State-owned Funds

Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

Government of Burkina Faso

Loan desecription

Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund provides emergency food aid to Burkina Faso

Narrative

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Project narrative

On March 3, 2023, China's Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund donated food to the Sahel region of Burkina Faso. A handover ceremony held on the same day was attended by Chinese Ambassador Lu Shan and UN World Food Programme (WFP)'s representative Elvira Pruscini. The grant was meant to relieve the famine in the worn-torn region, where according to Chinese sources as many as 170,000 people are living in dire situations due to political instability. The monetary value of the donation is unknown.