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Overview

Chinese Government donates 36 minibuses, 30 luxury automobiles, 100 escort motorcycles, and FCFA 85 million francs in cash to support Niger's July 2019 hosting of an African Union Summit via a July 2016 ETCA (Linked to Record ID#67596)

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$156,339
Commitment Year•2016Country of Activity•NigerDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•NigerSector•Other MultisectorFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Nov 30, 2016
Start (actual)
May 14, 2019
End (actual)
May 14, 2019

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The African Union (AU) summit was scheduled in Niamey, Niger. More detailed locational information can be found at https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3218804.

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

  • China Ministry of Commerce

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Niger

Loan desecription

Chinese Government donates 36 minibuses, 30 luxury automobiles, 100 escort motorcycles, and FCFA 85 million francs in cash to support Niger's July 2019 hosting of an African Union Summit via a July 2016 ETCA (Linked to Record ID#67596)

Narrative

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Project narrative

On May 14, 2019, the Chinese Government donated a series of vehicles and cash to support Niger's hosting of the Conference of Heads of State and Government, a special African Union (AU) summit to be hosted in July 2019 in Niamey. The donation included 36 30-seat minibuses, 30 luxury automobiles, and 100 escort motorcycles. All the vehicles were Chinese-made, and the Chinese Government was set to send a maintenance team to ensure the vehicles would work during the summit. The donation also included a check of FCFA 85 million francs (€130,000 EUR) to finance the purchase of computer equipment and photocopiers by the AU Niger 2019 Agency. The monetary value of the vehicles is unknown. This donation was made within the framework of an Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) signed by the Chinese and Nigerien governments on July 25, 2016 and an exchange of notes signed by the two governments on November 30, 2018.

Staff comments

The Chinese project title is 中国援尼举办非盟峰会物. Linked Record ID#67596 is an ETCA signed in early August/late July 2016 in which the Chinese Government committed RMB 300 million in grant funding for the General Referral Hospital in Niamey (#30415), the third bridge project (#58039), and other unspecified projects. This is almost certainly the ETCA that financed this project. As this is an ETCA, which is a financing mechanism specific to China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), AidData has coded MOFCOM as the specific Chinese Government institution responsible for providing this grant.