Project ID: 43867

China donates medical materials worth 1 million Yuan to Sierra Leone for preventing Ebola (linked to #35247, #41544, #36345)

Commitment amount

$ 179679.27365801416

Adjusted commitment amount

$ 179679.27

Constant 2021 USD

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Sierra Leone

Sector

Emergency response (Code: 720)

Flow type

Grant

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

Completion (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2014-04-23

Actual start

2014-04-23

Actual complete

2014-05-31

Description

On April 23, 2014, the spokesman of the Chinese embassy in Sierra Leone, Xu Zhou, announced that China signed an agreement to donate medicine and medical equipment to support Sierra Leone in the prevention of the Ebola disease. Zhao Yanbo, the Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone, and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Samura Kamara. The Chinese sent a batch of medical materials valued worth 1 million Yuan (approx. $162,000) to Sierra Leone in May 2014. In August 2014, with the second batch of similar materials being airlifted to Sierra Leone (#35247), the Sierra Leone government and the Chinese embassy officially signed the hand-over certificate for both consignments. This donation was given alongside donations of the same amount to Liberia and Guinea (#41544 and #36345).

Number of official sources

2

Number of total sources

5

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Implementing agencies [Type]

Government of Sierra Leone [Government Agency]