Project ID: 55564

China donated 3,000 tones of rice to El Salvador, aimed to help communities affected by Tropical Storm Michael (linked to #55498)

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

El Salvador

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

2018-01-01

Actual start

2018-11-07

Actual complete

2019-02-08

Geography

Description

In November 2018, El Salvador's President Salvador Sánchez Cerén meet with President Xi Jinping in China. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador, the Chinese government will donate 3000 tones of rice to El Salvador, specifically to aid farmers/communities that were affected by Tropical Storm Michael and the summer drought that resulted. The first 1,000 tons of rice arrived at the port of Acajutla, El Salvador on November 7th 2018, stated Ou Jianhong, China's ambassador to El Salvador. According to Dialogo Chino. The second batch of donations was handed over in December, 2018. The donation is complete. During this same meeting between President Cerén and President Jinping, memoranda of understanding for an Education/Scholarship Plan (#55585) and several other multisector projects were signed (#55498).

Number of official sources

4

Number of total sources

8

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of El Salvador [Government Agency]