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Chinese Government provides grant for provision of vocational training equipment

Commitment Year•2016Country of Activity•ZambiaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•ZambiaSector•EducationFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2016
End (actual)
Jul 20, 2016

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

  • Zambia Ministry of General Education

Loan description

Chinese Government provides grant for provision of vocational training equipment

Narrative

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Project narrative

On 20 July 2016, the Chinese ambassador to Zambia officially handed over vocational training supplies to Zambia's Secretary of the Ministry of Education. The value of this donation is unknown. They were donated under the framework of the Fifth Ministerial Meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). All 26 of Zambia's technical education, vocational and entrepreneurship training (TEVET) institutions were gifted new office equipment such as computers, printers, scanners, projectors, and screens. Lusaka Business and Technical College (LBTC), Livingstone Institute of Engineering and Business Studies (LIBES), Northern Technical College (NORTEC), and Kabwe Institute of Technology (KIT) received automotive engineering training equipment. Mansa, Lukashya, Choma and Chipata Trades Training Institutes got electrical engineering equipment.