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

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