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Chinese Government provides a RMB 5 million grant to supply equipment to schools in southern Lebanon

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$1,431,692
Commitment Year•2000Country of Activity•LebanonDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•LebanonSector•EducationFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Pipeline: Commitment

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Oct 23, 2000

Geospatial footprint

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This project sought to supply equipment to schools in southern Lebanon. Southern Lebanon is made up of the South Governorate and Nabatiye Governorate. More detailed locational information can be found at https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/318236 and https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/318309.

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 Lebanon

Loan desecription

Chinese Government provides a RMB 5 million grant to supply equipment to schools in southern Lebanon

Narrative

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Project narrative

On October 23, 2000, the Chinese Government and the Government of Lebanon signed an agreement in which the Chinese Government committed RMB 5 million ($600,000 USD) in grant funding to Lebanon for the supply of equipment to schools in southern Lebanon. Specifically, the grant proceeds were to be used to connect schools in the south of Lebanon with the rest of the country's education network via the SchoolNet Lebanon system.

Staff comments

This project is known as "School Equipment for Public Schools in the South, 2000" in the Lebanese Council for Development and Reconstruction's (CDR) database. The agreement number is 1056 (see "CDR Funding - School Equipment for Public Schools in the South, 2000"). This grant commitment came after the end of the Southern Lebanon conflict and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Southern Lebanon in May 2000. The CDR claims that the USD equivalent of this RMB 5 million grant was $785,091 USD, but media sources at the time ("Chinese gift helps students link up." and "CHINA-LEBANON SIGN DONATION DEAL."), as well as AidData's currency deflator, report an approximately $600,000 USD figure.