Project ID: 34999

Chinese Government provides MVR 61.6 million grant for construction of National Museum in Sultan Park, Malé

Commitment amount

$ 8658959.84262973

Adjusted commitment amount

$ 8658959.84

Constant 2021 USD

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Maldives

Sector

Other social infrastructure and services (Code: 160)

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

2007-01-01

Actual start

2007-11-12

Actual complete

2010-07-10

Geography

Description

In 2007, the Chinese Government provided grant funding for the construction of a national museum in Sultan Park in the capital city of Malé. Based on Maldives Government Budget reports that detail grant disbursements from China for this national museum construction project, Chinese Government grant funding totaled MVR 61.6 million. The annual disbursement Amounts are as follows: 21.3 million MVRin 2008, 40.3 million MVR in 2009. According to Albatross International Pvt. Ltd., the project cost was USD 7.8 million, but it is unclear whether or not the Chinese Government grant covered the entire cost. According to Chinese Embassy to Sri Lanka, Shandong Expressway Qilu Construction Group Co., Ltd. constructed the project.  The ground-breaking ceremony was held on November 12, 2007. The museum was handed over to the Maldives on July 10, 2010, and opened on Independence Day, July 26, 2010. It consisted of two large buildings in the old palace grounds. The museum was to serve as a platform for the preservation, display, and education of the culture heritage of the Maldives. The interior of the museum retains elements from the days of the Sultanate, including the handwritten Quran engraved on the walls. The museum is located in Sultan Park in Malé. Detailed locational coordinates can be found at https://www.google.com/maps/place/National+Museum/@4.1771979,73.5079528,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x3b3f7e55254c38c3:0x6cac26b752f8e856!8m2!3d4.1771979!4d73.5101415.

Additional details

The 2007 Maldives Budget in Statistics document lists a 15.5 million MVR estimated disbursement for 2006 for this project, but later documents (2008 & 2009) list no disbursement from 2006 for this project, so it seems the 2006 transaction never occurred.

Number of official sources

16

Number of total sources

19

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of the Maldives [Government Agency]

Implementing agencies [Type]

Shandong High Speed Qilu Construction Group Haiyang Corporation Ltd. (山东高速齐鲁建设集团海阳有限公司) [State-owned Company]

Maldives National Centre for Linguistic and Historical Research [Government Agency]