Project ID: 1356

China Donates Computers and Training Experts to Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Tanzania

Sector

Education (Code: 110)

Flow type

Grant

Concessional

Yes

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 year

2000

Implementation

2001

2001-12-01

Actual start

Completion

2003

2003-12-01

Actual

Description

On June 8, 2000, the Chinese embassy and Pius Ngwandu, the Tanzanian Minister of Science, Technology, and Higher Education, signed an agreement providing the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology with a gratis computer laboratory, including 50 'micro-computers', desks, chairs, printers, air conditioning, and two experts as teachers. According to a 2010 report, the computer lab was started in December 2001 and finished in December 2003.

Number of official sources

1

Number of unofficial sources

1

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Receiving agencies [Type]

Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology [Other]