Project ID: 55614

China grants $1 million USD to Lesotho for food aid

Commitment amount

$ 2031949.0852567037

Adjusted commitment amount

$ 2031949.09

Constant 2021 USD

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Lesotho

Sector

Developmental food aid/food security assistance (Code: 520)

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

2006-03-23

Actual start

2006-03-23

Actual complete

2006-03-23

Description

On March 23, 2006, the Chinese government donated $1 million USD in cash to the Government of Lesotho to buy food in an effort to mitigate the on-going famine. This article mentions the UN's World Food Program (WFP), but the first definitive donation from the People's Republic of China through WFP is captured in project #1092. AidData thinks this 2006 donation was contested at the time due to Taiwan sovereignty issues, but they were somehow resolved by 2008.

Number of official sources

1

Number of total sources

1

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Implementing agencies [Type]

Government of Lesotho [Government Agency]