Project ID: 60712

China donates USD 7 million in food aid to South Sudan through World Food Program (WFP)

Commitment amount

$ 7864952.285834976

Adjusted commitment amount

$ 7864952.29

Constant 2021 USD

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

South Sudan

Sector

Developmental food aid/food security assistance (Code: 520)

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

2019-01-03

Actual start

2019-07-16

Actual complete

2019-07-16

Geography

Description

On January 3, 2019, Chinese officials met with the World Food Program (WFP) representative to South Sudan and donated USD 7 million to bolster the WFP's food aid to South Sudan. On July 16, 2019, Chinese officials and the WFP held a ceremony at a girls' primary school in Juba to hand over food aid donated from China. The food donated included rice, oil, salt and beans, and would be distributed by the WFP. Most of the food donated would go to providing school meals for students. The total amount of the food donated is unknown.

Additional details

Number of official sources

6

Number of total sources

6

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Implementing agencies [Type]

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) [Intergovernmental Organization]