Narrative
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Project narrative
On January 22, 2010, China granted $250,000 for the restoration of education and early childhood development services following the earthquake in Haiti. The purpose of the grant is to support access to quality education and early childhood development services for 720,000 children ages 0-18 years with a special focus on girls, and the most vulnerable children. The Ministry of Education of Haiti and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) helped with project implementation. The total amount committed to the project was $69,172,396, from multiple countries and organizations, though as of February 19, 2014, only 3,955,623 had been disbursed. 100% of the financing from the Chinese Government had been disbursed, along with the financing from the Government of Sweden, Council of Europe Development Bank, and the Government of Spain.
Staff comments
The official project title is “Restoring quality education and ECD services in Haiti.” The end date is not known, but the project is marked as closed so status was coded as Completion. CRS sector coded as Emergency Response, instead of Education because (1) the project page lists Humanitarian Aid (of which Emergency Response is a subsection) as the primary sector and Education as the secondary sector and (2), while project has some aspects that seem longer-term than immediate rebuilding, the funds were committed within six months of the UN issuing a situation report about the emergency (relevant per OECD CRS guidelines), and because the project was only expected to run one year, judgement call made that it is sufficiently short-term focused to be considered Emergency Response.