Project ID: 88346

China provides scholarships to 52 Botswana students and 20 officers

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Botswana

Sector

Education (Code: 110)

Flow type

Scholarships/training in the donor country

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

Implementation (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2019-01-01

Actual start

2019-08-21

Geography

Description

On August 21, 2019, the Chinese Government held a farewell reception for the 2019 Chinese Government Scholarship beneficiaries at the Chinese Embassy in Gaborone, Botswana. Zhao Yanbo, the Chinese Ambassador to Botswana, and Tebogo Bagopi, the Botswana Deputy Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Tertiary Education, Research, Science and Technology, spoke at the event. Out of over 2,000 applicants, 52 students and 20 Botswana Defense Force (BDF) officers were provided scholarships to study at Chinese universities. About 150 people attended the farewell ceremony.

Number of official sources

1

Number of total sources

7

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Botswana [Government Agency]