Project ID: 44593

China donates food items worth $2 million to Sierra Leone through WFP (linked to #45060, #64640)

Commitment amount

$ 2214190.4628169765

Adjusted commitment amount

$ 2214190.46

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

2014-01-01

Planned start

2014-09-18

Actual start

2014-10-08

Actual complete

2014-12-29

NOTE: Red circles denote delays between planned and actual dates

Description

In September 2014, according to All Africa, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced his government's plan to donate food items worth $2 million as a response to the ongoing Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. On the same occasion, China also donated $1 million aid in cash to Sierra Leone for filling the fiscal gap (#44017). The food items, including rice, corn, soya beans and yellow split peas, were donated through the World Food Program (WFP). According to UN OCHA financial tracking system, China split $6 million USD equally to aid Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone through the World Food Program to support food security in light of the Ebola virus (see projects #45060 and #64640 for the donations to Liberia and Guinea). This is part of the aid package from China to three West African countries in that year in response to Ebola (#36373). On October 8, 2014, the Chinese embassy in Sierra Leone recorded that the Chinese Ambassador Zhao Yanbo and the Foreign Minister of Sierra Leone, Samura Kamara signed the certificate to hand over the items. On December 29, 2014, an article from the Chinese embassy website indicates that the food aid was transferred from WFP to the Sierra Leonean government. The WFP reported that the project was being implemented in Sierra Leone as of March 2015.

Number of official sources

5

Number of total sources

7

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) [Intergovernmental Organization]

Implementing agencies [Type]

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) [Intergovernmental Organization]

Chinese Embassy [Government Agency]

Government of Nigeria [Government Agency]