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Chinese Government provides a RMB 1.5 million grant to the Banque du Liban to acquire information network equipment for the LEBSTAT Project

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$407,758
Commitment Year•2003Country of Activity•LebanonDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•LebanonSector•Government And Civil SocietyFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2003

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This project involved the provision of communication equipment worth $180,000 USD to the Banque Du Liban in Beirut. More detailed locational information can be found at https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/542304576#map=19/33.89560/35.48892.

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Receiving agencies

State-owned Banks

  • Banque du Liban (BDL)

Implementing agencies

State-owned Banks

  • Banque du Liban (BDL)

Loan description

Chinese Government provides a RMB 1.5 million grant to the Banque du Liban to acquire information network equipment for the LEBSTAT Project

Narrative

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Project narrative

On July 21, 2003, the Chinese Government and the Government of Lebanon signed an agreement in which the Chinese Government donated RMB 1,500,000 to the Banque du Liban, Lebanon's central bank, to finance the LEBSTAT Project's application of General Data Dissemination System (GDDS). The aid was used to provide information network equipment, such as servers, routers, LAN switches, etc. to the Banque du Liban to help Lebanon implement its national statistical database project. It also included the acquisition of workstations, networks, software, and software development for the LEBSTAT Project, which sought to integrate all Lebanese government statistics together. This aid was expected to help establish e-government projects connect government ministries to collect, process, and analyze macro-economic statistics.

Staff comments

This project is known as "Machines and Software related to LEBSTAT Project to apply General Data Dissemination System (GDDS), 2003" in the Lebanese Council for Development and Reconstruction's (CDR) database. The agreement number is 1053 (see "CDR Funding - Machines and Software related to LEBSTAT Project to apply General Data Dissemination System (GDDS), 2003"). Project status was marked as "Completion" because it is clear that all Chinese financing was disbursed.