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Chinese Embassy donates money to support the United Nations Food Program food aid in the Central African Republic

Commitment Year•2018Country of Activity•Central African RepublicDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•LesothoSector•Developmental Food Aid/food Security AssistanceFlow Type•Grant

Status

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Implementation

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Feb 1, 2018
Start (actual)
May 31, 2018
End (actual)
May 31, 2018

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The project donated food aid through the UN Food Programme to help people displaced by violence in the southeast of the country, specifically the prefectures of Haute-Kotto, Basse-Kotto, Mbomou, and Haut-Mbomou. More detailed locational information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2634510 https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2634533 https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2634531 https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2634528#map=5/7.595/30.278

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of the Central African Republic

Intergovernmental Organizations

  • United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Implementing agencies

Intergovernmental Organizations

  • United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Loan desecription

Chinese Embassy donates money to support the United Nations Food Program food aid in the Central African Republic

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Project narrative

On May 31, 2018, the Chinese Embassy handed over money to the United Nations World Food Program to support its food aid to the Central African Republic. Though the money was handed over by the Chinese Embassy, the source specifies that the Chinese government provided the funding. This is part of a larger US $ 2 million allocated by the People's Republic of China in 2018 to provide emergency food assistance in cooperation with the UN World Food Program to people displaced by violence in the south-east of the country. The money was used to purchase food, including cereals, legumes, salt, vegetable oil and fortified flour. Chen Dong, the ambassador to Central Africa, signed the food aid handover certificate with Felix BF Gomez, WFP Representative in the Central African Republic

Staff comments

This donation was a part of a larger effort of the donation in Bangui of USD $2 million by the Chinese Government on February 1, 2018. The signing ambassador for that donation was listed as "Ma Fulin", not Chen Dong.