Project ID: 36095

China offers 48 scholarships for Kenyan students to study in China

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Kenya

Sector

Education (Code: 110)

Flow type

Scholarships/training in the donor country

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

Implementation (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2013-01-01

Actual start

2014-09-02

Description

Since 1982, the government of China has offered dozens of scholarships to Kenya students to enable them to pursue courses like engineering, medicine and information technology. 48 students departed to study various disciplines at Chinese universities on September 2nd, 2014 . The Chinese ambassador to Kenya, Liu Xianfa, presided over a farewell ceremony before the student's' departure. Currently, there are 200 Kenyan students studying in Chinese universities through government funded scholarships (中国政府奖学金).

Number of official sources

1

Number of total sources

4

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Cofinanced

No