Project ID: 1092

China donates $1 million USD to Lesotho through the World Food Program

Commitment amount

$ 1524585.9219490509

Adjusted commitment amount

$ 1524585.92

Constant 2021 USD

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Lesotho

Sector

Developmental food aid/food security assistance (Code: 520)

Flow type

Grant

Infrastructure

No

Category

Intent

Development (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

ODA-like (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Official Development Assistance

Other Official Flows

Vague (Official Finance)

Flows categorized based on OECD-DAC guidelines

Project lifecycle

Status

Completion (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2008-12-08

Actual start

2008-12-08

Actual complete

2009-03-01

Description

In 2008, the Chinese government donated $1 million USD to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) to buy 1,336 tons of maize flour from local farmers. On 8 December 2008, Chinese representatives officially handed it over to the Government of Lesotho and 200 different agencies responsible for distributing it to vulnerable Basotho over the next three months. This donation is a response to the then on-going famine caused by drought and rising grain prices.

Number of official sources

2

Number of total sources

7

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Implementing agencies [Type]

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) [Intergovernmental Organization]

Government of Lesotho [Government Agency]