Project ID: 49284

Chinese Government grants PHP 50 million to the Philippines after Typhoon Lawin in 2016 (linked to projects #49287 and #49290)

Commitment amount

$ 1242864.0753268716

Adjusted commitment amount

$ 1242864.08

Constant 2021 USD

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Philippines

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

2016-01-01

Actual start

2016-10-24

Actual complete

2016-10-24

Description

On October 24, 2016, the Chinese Government donated PHP 50 million to the Government of the Philippines for disaster relief for farmers and fishermen in regions affected by Typhoon Lawin (also known as Typhoon Haima). This project is completed. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Financial Tracking Service lists the project as flow ID #148762. As emergency relief for the typhoon, the Chinese Government also donated PHP 35 million to Philippine anti-disaster efforts (recorded in the linked project #49287), and the Red Cross Society of China additionally provided the Philippines with humanitarian aid worth $100,000 (recorded in the linked project #49290). The total amount of Chinese aid for these 3 projects is around 90 million pesos.

Additional details

The Relief Web source describes this donation as taking place on November 7, 2016: however, AidData codes it as occurring on October 24, 2016 as that is the date recorded by the majority of project sources.

Number of official sources

3

Number of total sources

8

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of the Philippines [Government Agency]