Chinese Government provides funding - via an August 2010 ETCA - for the construction of an educational center in Casavalle (Linked to Project ID#54986, #41189, and #41190)

On August 26, 2010, the Chinese Government and the Government of Uruguay signed an Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) in which the Chinese Government committed an unspecified amount of funding to Uruguay for unspecified purposes. Then, on November 29, 2017, the Chinese Government and the Government of Uruguay signed an agreement that allocated the committed funding from this ETCA and an ETCA signed in June 2011 (as captured by linked project ID#41189 and #41190) towards the construction of an educational center in Barrio Borro, Casavalle in Montevideo. In total, the Chinese Government provided the USD-equivalent of RMB 14,570,000 (~$2 million USD) towards the construction of the educational center. That sum is captured by linked project ID#54986. China Railway 17th Bureau Group, Co., Ltd. and Tianli (Beijing) Project Management & Consulting Co., Ltd. were the contractors responsible for project implementation. Uruguay's National Administration for Public Education (Administración Nacional de Educación Pública, ANEP) was the Uruguayan government agency responsible for the organization, coordination and administration of implementation. The construction was launched on November 1, 2018, with a construction period of one year. The new school had a capacity of 300 students, 12 educational spaces (nine classrooms and three workshops), offices for teachers and administration, a cafeteria for 300 people and that also served as a multifunctional room, reading rooms, sports field, toilets, and warehouses in a space of more than 1,700 m2. Construction also included paths and public accesses and reforestation outside. This educational center was planned be added to the School No. 319 (Escuela Nº 319) that operates in the neighborhood, which has an enrollment of seven hundred students. It will be known as the "People's Republic of China" School upon its completion.

Additional details

The Chinese Government provided the USD-equivalent of RMB 14,570,000. However, the breakdown of the financing between the August 2010 ETCA captured in this project and the June 2011 ETCA captured in linked project ID#41189 and/or #41190, linked project ID#54986 captures all committed financing. For the June 2011 financing specifically, there were two ETCAs signed; an interest-free loan of $1.6 million USD (ID#41190) and a grant of $4.6 million USD (ID#41189). It is unclear which ETCA was used to finance the construction of the educational center and how much financing was used; for the time being, AidData has linked both to this project. 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 financing.

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