China grants $1.375 million USD to UNFAO for rehabilitating fishery and agriculture sectors in Maldives following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

On 26 December 2004, a severe earthquake near the Indonesian island of Sumatra triggered an enormous tsunami in the Indian Ocean that hit many countries, including the Maldives. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Financial Tracking Service (flow ID #28300), on 11 January 2005, the Chinese government responded with a $1,375,000 USD donation to the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN for rehabilitating marine fisheries and agricultural infrastructure in the Maldives (UN project code is TSU-MDV-05/ER/I02-MALDIVES). OCHA marked this grant as fully paid. According to a July 2005 UN report, this purpose of this project was to restore livelihoods, replenish the country's food supply, and "support the agricultural community affected by the disaster through the replacement and/or repair of small fishing craft and equipment" (p. 48) The grant was part of the Post-Tsunami Agricultural and Fisheries Rehabilitation Program in the Republic of Maldives. The program was implemented between 2005 and 2013 with the purpose of restoring agricultural GDP to pre-tsunami levels. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Financial Tracking Service records this project in flow ID #28300.

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