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Project narrative
On December 18, 2014, the Chinese Government and the Government of Georgia signed an Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement (ETCA), in which the Chinese Government committed RMB 30 million in grant funding for the Mental Health Infrastructure Project. The funds were provided by the Chinese Government via China Development Bank (CDB). The grant was intended to allow Georgia's Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Health, Labour and Social Affairs to develop and improve the country's mental health infrastructure. According to the Government of Georgia’s External Assistance Management Information System (EAMIS), this project was completed in 2018. The Chinese Government later provided a RMB 60 million grant to improve Georgia's mental health infrastructure in 2016, as captured by linked Record ID#52701.
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This project is also known as the Mental Health Reform Project, the Developing New Infrastructure for Mental Health Facilities Project, the Mental Health Facilities Project, and the Mental Health Hospital Project. The Chinese project title is 心理健康医院项目. The nature of the relationship between this project and Record ID#52701 is unclear. The Government of Georgia’s External Assistance Management Information System (EAMIS) has over 2400 projects. To find this project, search project title "საქართველოში ფსიქიკური ჯანმრთელობის რეფორმის მხარდაჭერის მიზნით, ფსიქიატრიული დაწესებულებების ინფრასტრუქტურის გაუმჯობესების პროექტის განხორციელება" with the funder set to "ჩინეთი" (China) and the Project Completion Date set to "2018" on the "Project filters" resource page. "2017" will not show this project, meaning it must have been completed in 2018. No source explicitly links Georgia's Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Health, Labour and Social Affairs to this project. However, the latter RMB 60 million grant involved that agency (see "李小兵局长率组赴格鲁吉亚商谈援格心理健康医院项目实施协议并考察建设场址" for example). Seeing that this project appears to be associated with that, AidData has assumed the ministry was involved in this one and has coded it accordingly. AidData has coded the funding agency as MOFCOM as it is the sole administrator of China’s interest-free loan program. The sources that underpin this project record suggest that China Development Bank was the funding agency. However, this very likely reflects the fact that MOFCOM disbursed the loan through a bank account that the borrower established with China Development Bank.