PowerChina contributes to Chamber of Chinese Companies donation of medical supplies to Guayaquil in March 2020 (linked to Record ID#s #94443, #94445, #94447, #94448 and #94449)

📋 Staff Comments

1. Much of the key information about this project is taken from photographs of the handover ceremony, including the donors (based on the logos on boxes of donated supplies) and the fact that the materials were in Ecuador (more specifically, the Chinese Embassy in Ecuador) as of March 31, 2020.
2. The estimated value of the entire joint donation is $56,000.
3. AidData has estimated this based on price catalogues from the World Health Organization (WHO). Please see the TUFF Methodology for additional details.
4. Because the contribution of each donor to this joint donation is unknown, AidData has implemented the equal contribution assumption. In order to estimate each organization's contribution, AidData divides the total amount of supplies donated by the number of known contributors. In this case, six donors are known. However, CEEC and CGGC logos are both included on the same boxes of supplies. Further, CGGC is a subsidiary of CEEC. As a result, it is assumed that these two companies jointly contributed their portion of the donation, and the total donation has only been split five ways. Thus, the value of PowerChina's estimated contribution is calculated as follows: USD 56,000 / 5 = USD 11,200.

📚 Sources & References

• COVID-19: Gobierno gestiona importantes donaciones desde China
• Replication Data for: China’s Foreign Aid Political Drivers: Lessons from a Novel Dataset of Mask Diplomacy in Latin America During the COVID-19 Pandemic, [Tweet from @CancilleriaEc posted 8:14 PM on March 31, 2020, beginning, 'Presidente de Cámara Empresas chinas en Ecuador
• Liu Aisheng, donó...'
• Empresas chinas en Ecuador donan insumos para ayudar en combate a COVID-19, [Photograph of donated materials; boxes include photographs of donor company logos]
• Chinese Embassy in Quito
• Ecuador
• Cooperación Internacional No Reembolsable Recibida en el marco de la Emergencia Sanitaria por COVID-19 (Desde el 16 de marzo de 2020 hasta la fecha actual) Loan applications and disbursements are still being received and processed as the projects continue to evolve. Ongoing monitoring and evaluation are in place to ensure project continuity.