Overview

China Trust Fund provides a $300,000 USD grant for the ASEAN+3 Green Public Procurement and Eco-Labelling Project

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$325,145

Commitment Year•2012Country of Activity•Asia, regionalDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•China (People's Republic of)Sector•General Environmental ProtectionFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Dec 14, 2012

End (actual): Dec 1, 2016

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 Ecology and Environment

Receiving agencies

State-owned Funds

UNEP China Trust Fund

Implementing agencies

Intergovernmental Organizations

United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)

Loan description

China Trust Fund provides a $300,000 USD grant for the ASEAN+3 Green Public Procurement and Eco-Labelling Project

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

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, $300,000 USD from the China Trust Fund was allocated towards the strengthening the capacities and improving the knowledge of green public procurement and eco-labelling in the ASEAN+3 region (T1-P4) (p. 4). This project was presumabley carried out in all ASEAN+3 member countries (China, Japan, Korea, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam). It was completed in December 2016.