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Overview

Chinese Government provides a $2 million grant to the World Food Programe to assist the response to the food shortage caused by COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$1,844,283
Commitment Year•2021Country of Activity•Sierra LeoneDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•LesothoSector•Developmental Food Aid/food Security AssistanceFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Mar 10, 2021
Start (actual)
Jul 26, 2021
End (actual)
Feb 10, 2022

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

  • Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Sierra Leone Ministry of Social Welfare

Intergovernmental Organizations

  • United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Implementing agencies

Intergovernmental Organizations

  • United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Loan description

Chinese Government provides a $2 million grant to the World Food Programe to assist the response to the food shortage caused by COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On March 10, 2021, the Chinese Government committed a $2,000,000 USD grant to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) as part of the South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund to assist the response to the food shortage caused by COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone. The grant was fully disbursed on March 20, 2021. 1,800 of the 2,265 metric tons of rice procured under the $2 million USD grant were handed over to Sierra Leone's Ministry of Social Welfare on July 26, 2021. The project was completed on February 10, 2022. The rice was to be used to feed 21,000 households throughout Sierra Leone.

Staff comments

1. The project name in Chinese is 食援助三方合作项目. 2. The project identification numbers in the Government of Sierra Leone's Development Assistance Database (DAD) are SL/005921.