Overview

Chinese Government donates 10,000 tons of food to help Syrian refugees across the Middle East

Commitment Year•2016Country of Activity•Middle East, regionalDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•Syrian Arab RepublicSector•Emergency ResponseFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Implementation

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Feb 4, 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

Government of Syria

Loan description

Chinese Government donates 10,000 tons of food to help Syrian refugees across the Middle East

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On February 4, 2016, the Chinese Government announced that it would donate 10,000 tons of food to ease food shortages experienced by Syrian refugees. Syria and other countries in the region were the beneficiaries of this assistance. The food assistance was being implemented by the Chinese Government as of November 2016.

Staff comments

This project is sometimes associated with (but is separate from) a 2016 provision of RMB 230 million in humanitarian aid from China to Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, and Yemen. That project is captured by Record ID#64971.