China provides in-kind grant of 30 million Chinese Yuan worth of relief material to Pakistan for internally displaced persons (Linked to project #39088)
Commitment amount
$ 6595954.730550492
Adjusted commitment amount
$ 6595954.73
Constant 2021 USD
Summary
Funding agency [Type]
Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]
Recipient
Pakistan
Sector
Emergency response (Code: 720)
Flow type
Grant
Infrastructure
No
Category
Project lifecycle
Geography
Description
To help Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of Swat and adjoining areas, the Chinese government has announced further assistance of 30 million Chinese yuan worth of relief materials, Pakistan's Ambassador to China Masood Khan on May 23, 2009. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu explained that the first batch would be airlifted to Pakistan on 27 May 2009.The grant includes water purification equipment, power generator and medicine. More than 1.6 million people had fled from the Swat Valley in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, where government forces had been battling armed Islamic militants for weeks. In addition, about 215017 internally displaced persons have been staying at 17 relief camps. More than 1.4 million affected people were registered outside the camps.
Additional details
Previously, China had already given one million U.S. dollars cash in emergency humanitarian aid to Pakistan for the PM's Special Fund for the Victims of Terrorism. For details of this project, see #39088.
Number of official sources
1
Number of total sources
6
Details
Cofinanced
No