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Overview

Chinese Government provides a RMB 15 million grant — via a January 2010 ETCA — to acquire equipment for people with special needs (Linked to Record ID#65644)

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$2,850,025
Commitment Year•2010Country of Activity•LebanonDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•LebanonSector•Other Social Infrastructure And ServicesFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 14, 2010

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

  • Lebanese Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR)

Loan desecription

Chinese Government provides a RMB 15 million grant — via a January 2010 ETCA — to acquire equipment for people with special needs (Linked to Record ID#65644)

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On January 14, 2010, the Chinese Government and the Lebanese Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR) signed an Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement (ETCA), in which the Chinese Government committed RMB 15 million ($2.2 million USD) in grant funding to Lebanon for unspecified purposes (captured by this project). The same day, the Chinese Government and CDR signed another, separate ETCA, in which the Chinese Government committed RMB 20 million ($3.1 million USD) in grant funding to Lebanon for unspecified purposes (captured by linked Record ID#65644). The use of the grant proceeds was to be mutually agreed upon by both governments. The Council of Ministers of Lebanon approved the grants via Resolution No. 51 dated December 21, 2009 and Resolution No. 27 dated January 5, 2010. Ultimately, the RMB 15 million grant was used to acquire equipment for Lebanese people with special needs. According to CDR, this project has been completed.

Staff comments

This project is known as "Economic and Technical Cooperation, 2010 - Equipments for People with Special Needs" in the Lebanese Council for Development and Reconstruction's (CDR) database. The agreement number is 6872 (see "CDR Funding - Economic and Technical Cooperation, 2010 - Equipments for People with Special Needs"). CDR claims that the USD equivalent of this RMB 15 million grant was $2,350,448 USD, but official sources at the time (such as pg.1 of "Aid Coordination Newsletter Issue 27 February 2010") report a $2.2 million USD figure. 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.