China Road and Bridge Corporation provides anti-epidemic materials to National Police of Ecuador in April 2020 (Linked to Project ID#94366)

On April 16, 2020, the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), China Communications Construction (CCCC), and the Chamber of Commerce of Chinese Companies in Ecuador provided a joint donation of medical supplies to the National Police of Ecuador and the Ministry of Government. The materials will be distributed to police officers throughout Ecuador for prevention and control of COVID-19. CRBC contributed 100,800 masks, 5,200 gloves, 2,000 protective suits, and 3,024 protective goggles to the donation, which were were valued at approximately USD 90,000. The contributions of CCCC and the Chamber of Commerce are unknown. A handover ceremony took place on April 16, 2020 at the Mariscal Sucre Airport in Quito. Authorities from the Chinese Embassy in Ecuador, representatives of the Chamber of Commerce of Chinese Companies, and General Sp. Patricio Pazmiño, the Vice Minister of the Interior, attended the ceremony. TW Logistic Group helped facilitate the handover of the donation.

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1. TW Logistics may have, instead of facilitating the donation, been one of the donors. However, AidData assumes it is an implementing organization due to the lack of information about the company (that is, it cannot be verified to be a member of the Chinese Enterprises Chamber of Commerce) and the phrasing of the sign in which TW Logistics is mentioned (the company contributed to the handover of the donation of materials from...the Chamber of Commerce/"contribuye con la entrega de donación de materiales de...la Cámara de Comercio"). Further, if it is a member of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Ecuador, it cannot be confirmed to be a majority state-owned company, and therefore does not merit a project. 2. The supplies described as CRBC's portion of the donation in the project description may be the contents of the overall donation. If this were the case, known materials and their value would be subject to AidData's equal contribution, and CCCC, CRBC, and the Chamber of Commerce would each have an estimated contribution of 1/3 of 90,000 USD. This possibility arises from the fact that many sources about this donation report as if CRBC is the only donor, when it is known - based on photographs of the handover ceremony - that CCCC contributed as well. However, the wording alone of the Chinese Embassy's Tweet and the article from Ecuador's National Police, while somewhat ambiguous, seem to indicate better that CRBC alone contributed the 90,000 USD in supplies. 3. A project has not been created for the Chinese Enterprise Chamber of Commerce in Ecuador's contribution. For the time being, AidData does not track donations from these kinds of organizations, insofar as it is unknown which companies in particular contributed, as well as whether or not those companies are majority state-owned.

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