Chinese Embassy contributes to donation of 930,000 surgical gloves and 5,000 N95 masks to Ecuadorian hospitals and Armed Forces in March 2020

📋 Staff Comments

1. The National Chamber of Aquaculture is a non-profit association of individuals and companies in Ecuador's aquaculture sector with the goal of developing said sector.
2. AidData has used the equal contribution assumption to estimate the Chinese Embassy's contribution. That is, the 930,000 surgical gloves and 5,000 N95 masks have been divided by the number of donors (two). Therefore, the Chinese Embassy's estimated contribution to the donation is 465,000 surgical gloves and 2,500 N95 masks.
3. Harvard's Mask Diplomacy dataset estimates the total donation value was USD 28,600 (USD 14,300 for each half). Therefore, the Chinese Embassy's estimated contribution is USD 14,300 using the Harvard Mask Diplomacy dataset's per-unit estimates.

📚 Sources & References

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, [Tweets from @CamaraChinaEc posted 12:57 AM on March 23, 2020, beginning 'El gobierno chino donó un total de 930.000 guantes de examinación y quirúrgicos...', [Tweet from @EmbajadaChinaEc posted 6:44 PM on March 19, 2020, beginning '#LuchaConjunta[...]La @cnaecuador y nuestra Embajada entregaron 930.000 guantes quirúrgicos y...'], [Tweet from @cnaecuador posted 6:39 PM on March 19, 2020, beginning 'DONACIÓN[...]@cnaecuador y @EmbajadaChinaEc donaron contingente de insumos médicos a entidades en Ecuador...'] 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.