Implementation of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF): A Religious Perspective

The hallmark of CDF is to alleviate community poverty. Similarly, the foundation of ESCR is to promote world peace and justice. Now, the concept of peace in this context traverses the confines of understanding peace as the absence of war. Why? This is because, you can have a situation where there is no war, but people are struggling to access basic services like education, health, clean environment, water and sanitation and they would be wallowing in poverty etc. Some schools of thought understand ESCR as positive rights. Primarily because they give responsibility to the Government to provide. This, then seamlessly fits into the CDF implementation because CDF is an avenue for the Government to progressively realise ESCR. Further, CDF is connected to support the quality of social service provision like education, sanitation, water, health etc.