Project ID: 37736

Chinese Government provides $5.1 million grant — via ETCA — for Loto Taumafai Disability Society New Campus Construction Project (Linked to Project ID#71882)

Commitment amount

$ 5988030.1454218095

Adjusted commitment amount

$ 5988030.15

Constant 2021 USD

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

China Ministry of Commerce [Government Agency]

Recipient

Samoa

Sector

Education (Code: 110)

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

2012-01-01

Actual start

2014-05-09

Actual complete

2015-11-06

Geography

Description

In 2012, the Chinese Government provided a grant worth $5.1 million to the Government of Samoa for the Loto Taumafai Disability Society New Campus Construction Project. The grant proceeds were at least partially drawn from an economic and technical cooperation agreement (ETCA) that the two governments signed in April 2012 (captured via Project ID#71882). The purpose of the project was to construct a National Disability Center (known as the Loto Taumafai Center for Disabled People) — with eleven classrooms and other necessary facilities — for the Loto Taumafai Society for People with Disabilities in Vaitele Fou (Vaitele-uta), next to the Faatuatua School. The two acre campus (complex) was to include a vocational workshop, a special pool to treat disable children, computer rooms, gymnasium, dining hall, and a two story office block. The center was designed to have an intake of 150 students, and an early intervention program that reaches out to approximately 300 children from Upolu and Savaii. The Samoan government first requested funding from the Chinese Government for the construction of the Loto Taumafai Disability Society New Campus (or Loto Taumafai School at Vaitele for the Disabled) in Vaitele Fou in 2010. A project feasibility study was then undertaken with financial support from another ETCA that the Samoan and Chinese governments signed on January 14, 2010 (captured via Project ID#72282). Hunan Construction Engineering Group Corporation was the contractor responsible for project implementation. A groundbreaking ceremony took place on May 9, 2014 and a completion ceremony took place on November 6, 2015. The National Disability Center was then officially handed over to the local authorities on December 23, 2015.

Additional details

The Chinese project title is 萨摩亚残疾人培训中心.

Number of official sources

11

Number of total sources

25

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Samoa [Government Agency]

Implementing agencies [Type]

Government of Samoa [Government Agency]

Hunan Constructing Engineering Group Corporation [State-owned Company]