The main sectors and activities funded by CDP-2 were in the following thematic areas:

Health

Support to community dispensaries and health centers.  Activities included:  construction/renovation of buildings, equipping, connection to electricity supply, provision of water supply systems, etc.  Limited construction of new dispensaries was considered only where there was an undertaking in writing by the Ministry of Health to provide staff and essential drugs.

Education

Support to public educational institutions such as primary schools, secondary schools and vocational training centers, giving priority to institutions with poor facilities such as mud-walled classrooms, insufficient latrines, lack of clean water, etc. Activities included: construction/renovation of classrooms, laboratories, workshops and toilets; connection of power; connection to water supply systems, etc. Boarding facilities for primary/secondary schools were considered in remote areas.  Administrative blocks and teachers houses were not normally supported.  Teacher’s houses were, however, considered in limited cases for very remote areas where housing was not easily available.

Water and Sanitation

Development/rebuilding and upgrading of simple and technologically suitable water supply systems such as wells, boreholes, dams, piped water systems, etc.

Economic Infrastructure

Improvement of small rural access roads (unclassified roads) through grading, gravelling etc; construction of rural bridges and minor crossings; rebuilding/improvement of small markets; construction and equipping of economic infrastructure facilities; minor electrification, etc.

Livestock and Animal Health

Construction of Community livestock drug stores and provision of start up drugs; construction/improvement of marketing facilities (e.g. holding grounds, markets and auction yards); provision of livestock breeding facilities and provision of livestock watering facilities, etc.

Environmental conservation

Environmental conservation projects such as tree nursery initiatives, soil conservation, etc., were also considered, but only as a minor component within other projects. For example, public institutions like schools, or projects such as water projects that wished to incorporate such conservation activities alongside other targets were considered.