Chinese Government provides SCR 35.3 million grant for Praslin Housing Project

According to the 2018 Public Sector Investment Programme (PSIP) of the Government of Seychelles, the Chinese Government committed SCR 35,317,000 of grant funding for the Praslin Housing Project in 2017 or 2018. This project involved the construction of 18 housing units, with three bedrooms each, to replace unused police and medical facilities within the Grand Anse district on Praslin Island. It was part of the Seychellois President's efforts to build 24 houses in 24 districts in 24 months to address low-cost housing shortages. Qingjian International (Seychelles) Group Dev. Ltd. — the local affiliate of Qingjian International Group — was responsible for implementation. The 2018 PSIP identifies the status of the project as ‘new’ rather than ‘ongoing’ or ‘completed’. However, construction began on September 6, 2018 and ended on February 9, 2020. An opening ceremony took place in March 2020.

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This project may also be known as the Ex-Kashugy Housing Project at Bel-Ombre and Marie-Jeanne Estate Project and Phase II of the Karl Tamatave Estate Project. Also, it is not entirely clear if the 2018 PSIP source is reviewing the previous fiscal year or setting projections for the next fiscal year. For the purposes of this project record, AidData assumes that the 2018 PSIP source was created at the end of the fiscal year 2017 (explained by the "revised budget 2017" column) and the figures after that column represent how the Government of Seychelles intended to spend the money in the future (during fiscal year 2018). Since fiscal years often do not align with calendar years, and the grant funding from the Chinese Government is classified as ‘new’, it is unclear if the funds were awarded in the calendar year 2017 or calendar year 2018.

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