Project ID: 93348

Chinese Government signs agreement with UN World Food Program to provide food aid to Benin, Liberia and the Republic of Congo in July 2021

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

China South-South Cooperation Fund [State-owned Fund]

Recipient

Africa, regional

Sector

Developmental food aid/food security assistance (Code: 520)

Flow type

Grant

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

Pipeline: Commitment (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2021-07-29

Description

On July 29, 2021, the Chinese Government signed an agreement with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to provide food aid to Benin, Liberia, and the Republic of Congo. The purpose of this agreement is to provide food assistance to vulnerable groups in the three countries. The agreement indicates that China will use its South-South Cooperation Fund to finance the project and the WFP will help to implement the project. Implementation details have yet to be found. A signing ceremony was held virtually for this agreement. Luo Zhaohui, the Chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), and David Beasley, the Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), attended the ceremony and signed the food assistance agreement.

Number of official sources

2

Number of total sources

4

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Implementing agencies [Type]

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) [Intergovernmental Organization]