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Chinese government donates RMB 10 million in the form of 820 tons of food aid to the Central African Republic

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$1,521,498
Commitment Year•2018Country of Activity•Central African RepublicDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•Central African RepublicSector•Developmental Food Aid/food Security AssistanceFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Sep 3, 2018
Start (actual)
May 24, 2019
End (actual)
May 24, 2019

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

Implementing agencies

Intergovernmental Organizations

  • United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Loan desecription

Chinese government donates RMB 10 million in the form of 820 tons of food aid to the Central African Republic

Narrative

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Project narrative

On May 24, 2019, the Chinese government signed a food aid transfer certificate to government officials from the Central African Republic. Chinese Ambassador to Central Africa Chen Dong and Central Africa Minister of Economy, Planning and Cooperation Félix Moloua signed the food aid handover certificate on behalf of the two governments. This project originally began in 2018, when President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China and President Faustin-Archange Touadéra of the Central African Republic signed a food agreement in September 3-4 during the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation as an implementation of the first part of the “eight major initiatives.” The certificate was given to the Central African Republic government, but it is unclear which agency was responsible for distributing the food aid. On June 1, 2019 Chen Dong, Félix Moloua, representatives from the World Food Program, and representatives of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations attended a cereal donation ceremony according to this food agreement. The total amount of food donated in 2019 was eight hundred and twenty (820) tons of cereals arriving in separate installments, the total value of which is ten million Yuan. The first batch of two hundred tons was stored at the WFP logistics base.