Project ID: 2498

Chinese Government provides $6.5 million grant for Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office Building Construction Project in Uganda

Commitment amount

$ 16246456.863023728

Adjusted commitment amount

$ 16246456.86

Constant 2021 USD

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

China Ministry of Foreign Affairs [Government Agency]

Recipient

Uganda

Sector

Government and civil society (Code: 150)

Flow type

Grant

Infrastructure

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

2002-01-01

Actual start

2003-03-30

Planned complete

2004-03-01

Actual complete

2004-09-17

NOTE: Red circles denote delays between planned and actual dates

Geography

Description

In 2001, the Chinese Government and the Government of Uganda signed a protocol agreement for the construction of a building for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Then, on November 28, 2002, China's Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Yang Wenchang and Uganda's Minister for the Presidency and Acting Foreign Secretary Gilbert Bukenya signed an agreement for a grant worth 6.5 million USD to help with shortages in the construction of the foreign affairs ministry on Plot 2 Apollo Kaggwa Road, Kampala, Uganda. Construction began on March 30, 2003, and was completed on May 30, 2004, and the handover ceremony was on September 17, 2004. The office building is 7 stories high and has a building area of 6,018 square meters. Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Co., Ltd. was the project implementer.

Number of official sources

7

Number of total sources

12

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Uganda [Government Agency]

Implementing agencies [Type]

Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Co., Ltd. (AFECC) [Private Sector]