Project ID: 86859

China Trust Fund provides a $300,000 USD grant for the Support towards Ratification and Implementation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury Project

Commitment amount

$ 352237.0673777535

Adjusted commitment amount

$ 352237.07

Constant 2021 USD

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

China Ministry of Ecology and Environment [Government Agency]

Recipient

Multi-Region

Sector

General environmental protection (Code: 410)

Flow type

Grant

Infrastructure

No

Category

Intent

Development (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

ODA-like (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Official Development Assistance

Other Official Flows

Vague (Official Finance)

Flows categorized based on OECD-DAC guidelines

Project lifecycle

Status

Completion (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2012-12-14

Actual complete

2016-03-01

Description

On 14 December 2012, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (China MEP) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) signed a framework agreement on strategic cooperation. This agreement involved China MEP committing $2 million annually to the China Trust Fund which focuses on environmental protection in African, ASEAN, and Central Asian countries. According to a 2017 Final Report from UNEP, $400,000 USD from the China Trust Fund was allocated to the Support towards Ratification and Implementation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury Project (T1-P2) (p. 71). This project took place in unspecified African and Asian Pacific countries (p. 57). It was completed in March 2016.

Number of official sources

2

Number of total sources

2

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

UNEP China Trust Fund [State-owned Fund]

Implementing agencies [Type]

United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) [Intergovernmental Organization]