The main sectors and activities funded by CDP 3 include the following:

Health:

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

• Access to health services: priority is given to projects that target geographical areas where communities are not able to get basic health services.  This is determined taking into consideration distance and travel time, and terrain to reach quality basic health services. This can be determined by the conditions of road and availability of transport.
• Availability of human and material resources: priority is given to projects that will continue to operate successfully at the end of CDP support with regard to procurement of drugs, vaccines, equipment and trained staff.
• Delivery of required services: health services that are required in the community to focus on the most common health problems including family and maternal health care.

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 may include: construction/renovation of classrooms, laboratories, workshops and toilets; connection of power; connection to water supply systems, etc. CDP3 may also support boarding facilities for primary/secondary schools in remote areas.  Administrative blocks and teachers houses are not normally supported.  Teachers houses may, however, be considered in limited cases for very remote areas where housing is not easily available.

CDP3 also supports projects that specifically contribute to assist completion of primary school facilities for disadvantaged groups, such as the disabled, low-income groups, girls in areas where communities move from place to place.  Examples include:

Number of pupils per classroom: priority is given to schools with a high number of pupils when compared to the available classrooms.

Average distance from home to school: priority is given to projects that help to reduce the average distance pupils travel from their home to school, considering also the terrain that the pupils traverse to and from school.

Water and Sanitation:

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

• Access to clean water: priority is given to projects that target places where clean water is far or not accessible.

• Community Water Project: CDP3 assists water projects that bring water closer to users and provide communal water points (i.e. water kiosks) but does not fund private individual connections.

• Low cost water systems: whenever possible, priority is given to gravity-fed supply over pumping systems.

• Sanitation: water projects that promote appropriate technology; health education and sanitation are favoured.

• Small Scale Irrigation:  priority is given to gravity-fed irrigation schemes that benefit a large section of the community.

 
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:

CDP may support environmental conservation projects such as tree nursery initiatives, soil conservation etc., but only as a minor component within other  projects. For example, public institutions like schools, or projects such as water projects, may wish to incorporate such conservation activities alongside other targets.