Project ID: 57404

Chinese Government provides grant for provision of vocational training equipment

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Zambia

Sector

Education (Code: 110)

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

2016-01-01

Actual complete

2016-07-20

Description

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.

Number of official sources

2

Number of total sources

2

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Zambia Ministry of General Education [Government Agency]