Project ID: 64973

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

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Middle East, regional

Sector

Emergency response (Code: 720)

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

Implementation (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2016-02-04

Description

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.

Additional details

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 project ID#64971.

Number of official sources

2

Number of total sources

5

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Syria [Government Agency]