Project ID: 88343

Chinese Government dispatches third police peacekeeping riot team to Liberia in 2015

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Liberia

Sector

Government and civil society (Code: 150)

Flow type

Free-standing technical assistance

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

2015-01-01

Actual start

2015-03-11

Actual complete

2016-03-12

Description

On March 11, 2015, the Chinese Government dispatched China's third peacekeeping police riot team to Liberia for a one-year term as a Formed Police Unit (FPU) under the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). The team consisted of 140 members drawn from the Shandong Provincial Public Security Border Defense Corps. The team arrived at Jinan Yaoqiang International Airport by chartered flight to complete the peacekeeping mission. In addition to peacekeeping missions, the team members also donated supplies for cultural and sports activities to the resident schools; participated in the commemorations of UN Peacekeeper Day and UN Day; performed tactical demonstrations, martial arts, gongs and drums, and national instrumental music performances to spread Chinese culture. The team returned on March 12, 2016.

Additional details

Number of official sources

2

Number of total sources

4

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) [Intergovernmental Organization]

Implementing agencies [Type]

United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) [Intergovernmental Organization]

UNMIL Chinese Police (FPU) [Government Agency]