By Hon Sunday Chanda – Kanchibiya MP
[END OF YEAR CDF REPORTS – KANCHIBIYA]
2023 CDF RESOURCE ALLOCATION, MANAGEMENT, DISBURSEMENT & UTILIZATION – KANCHIBIYA CONSTITUENCY.
“It’s Time To Work….”
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An Update On The Allocation and Utilization of CDF in Kanchibiya – 2023 [Q4 Status Report – December, 2023]
- Status Report on the of Allocation, Management, Disbursement and Utilization of 2023 CDF in Kanchibiya Constituency.
Funding Type : CDF 2023
Awarding Institution : Ministry of Local Govt.
Approved Amount : K26,887,641.55
CDF Project Window : 2023-24
Pursuant to Section 6.1 of Part Six (6) of the CDF Guidelines (2023) [ ACCOUNTABILITY OF THE FUND – CDF] as read together with the Public Finance Management Act No. 1 of 2018 and based on the principles of fiscal discipline, prudence, equity and transparency, the office of the Area Member of Parliament – Kanchibiya seeks to report as such:
FINANCIAL NOTES
WE UNDERSCORE OUR COMMITMENT TO ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY AND DO IN THAT STEAD IMPLORE OUR COLLEAGUES COUNTRYWIDE TO EMULATE US IN THIS ENDEAVOUR IN THE INTEREST OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, ADVANCEMENT AND PRUDENT USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS.
-Do note, that only two districts are ahead of Kanchibiya in the utilization of Bursaries and Skills Development as they have boarding school facilities and skills training centres.
-Kanchibiya has no boarding schools neither does it have a skills training Centre and this affects the burn rate under this component. However steps have been taken to correct this anomaly by constructing dormitories using CDF such as the one at Kopa Day Secondary School (with more coming in 2024).
-Notably under our 2023 CDF resource envelope, Kanchibiya only had 23 beneficiaries under the bursaries component which translates to around K81,000 out of K2million plus allocation. The holds true for the Skills Development Bursaries.
-Following from the foregoing, here is a faithful representation and detailed component by component report (on community projects, loans and grants, disaster component, bursaries and skills development) to show CDF burn rate for Kanchibiya which can be verified with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.
Component Expenditure
Community Projects K11,406,979.80
Loans K3,227,785.00
Grants. K2,151,856.55
Bursaries – Skills & Boarding K669,790.00
ADDITIONAL NOTES
-Of the 117 bursaries granted to Kanchibiya district, a total of twenty-five (25) were awarded to successful female applicants while ninety-two (92) were awarded to successful male applicants after a rigorous appraisal process.
-CDF Skills Development Bursaries do not cater for courses like Nursing, Midwifery and Teaching which are preferred by the Girl Child in most rural areas including Kanchibiya. This has unfortunately led to a low uptake of Bursaries.
-However, savings made thereof were varied and allocated as such:
-Cumulatively, a total saving of K3,979,228.00 was realised from the Bursaries appropriation for 2023. These savings were varied and allocated to the following community projects as tabulated below.
Project Name Amount Allocated
- Completion of 1×3 CRB : K460,000.00
at Kabinga Sec. School - Procurement of Morgue : K530,000.00
Equipment (Kopa Mini Hosp) - Washeni Bridge Additional: K370,000.00
Funds - Water & Sanitation Project: K100,228.00
at Mpepo Primary School - Bicycle Purchase – WDCs : K64,700.00
- Purchase of 1,613 Desks : K1,774,300
- Chikakala Bridge Funds : K500,000.00
- Purchase Of Fuel Bowser : K180,000.00
ADDENDUM
- Under CDF 2022, Kanchibiya exhausted it’s entire CDF resource allocation serve for the construction of classrooms at Macheleta Primary School which contract was cancelled following the contractor’s failure to execute within the agreed timeframe.
- Under 2023, Kanchibiya also had to cancel and re-advertise some contracts where contractors failed to deliver on time and these have since been awarded.
- Following the release of K4,715,218,531.00, which includes K298, 249, 817.44, Supplementary Budget, for the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) to all 156 Constituencies (including Kanchibiya) by The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD), it entails that we will able to EFFECTIVELY IMPLEMENT ALL APPROVED PROJECTS under 2023.
-The latest tranche of funds translates to EACH Constituency (including Kanchibiya) across the Country, RECEIVING 100% CDF FUNDING amounting to K28,313,902.01 allocated in this years National Budget.
-Development is a continuous process , therefore projects are bound to overlap and transcend yearly development windows.
CONCLUSION
Gratitude is extended to the Government, through the Ministry of Local Government & Rural Development for its strong commitment in ensuring the successful implementation of all CDF components especially for rural districts like Kanchibiya.
Further gratitude is extended to the office of the Attorney General for the expeditious manner in which CDF projects and variations thereof are approved and given a legal nod.
By the same token as reported we implore our counterparts countrywide to publish their component by component detailed reports too as rendered here.
KANCHIBIYA CDF AT WORK ©2023
Sunday Chanda has built for himself a respectable political name in less than five years of being a Member of Parliament. Not everyone is happy of course. No doubt he will be keeping an eye on those who are unhappy because he’s delivering.
Very true. If only we had more of Mr. Sunday Chanda’s calibre and mindset among politicians, Zambia would be a developed country. Why is it so hard for other policiians to do the work for the people like what Mr. Chanda is doing? Congratulations honourable for the good works you doing for our good people of your constituency and I believe you are among the very few who deserve the title of honourable.
Excellent work sir, I wish every MP would do exactly the same.
We need feedback from the Auditor General’s office on how the money has been utilized, on whether the quality of works matches the expenditure etc. That is when we will know whether MP Sunday Chanda is properly utilizing CDF funds. But with limited capacity of the Auditor General’s office to audit the performance of CDF, praise-singers will just continue to be mindlessly clapping hands for Sunday.
There’s another article that analyzes the burn rate and performance on this website.
Rather than insulting perhaps you can read.
Twaambo’s analysis is generic in nature and not talking about Kanchibiya specifically. Praise-singers seem to have challenge understanding what they read.
Highly recommendable Mr Chanda. This is surely an MP that has performed above expectations. And I like this transparency.
You Sunday chanda you deserve a ministerial position, I wish the president could do something in order to bring you near the helms of government, you’re such a focused person working more than some of the upnd mps,continue making kanchibiya a known district and that constituency should consider naming some of the projects after you as the first mp to develop the constituency
Hon. Sunday Chanda has set a standard, by reporting back to general public. Whether there is quality work in what they are doing, the fact he is the
first MP in Zambia to give a detailed report on CDF utilisation. It is easy to follow and check the quality of work from the report. He deserves to be encouraged. Actually those with limited mind should understand that CDF is taxpayers money regardless of the constituency, every Zambian needs to know how money is being utilised. And CDF is not a new thing the major difference is amount allocated and broadening in its usage or application. Never a report on CDF has been released to the general public and detailed like the one above wether from an ruling party MPs or opposition party MPs never. This money does not come from a particular constituency but from every taxpayer in Zambia.
Let there be a Law to compel CDF committee to give annual report to the General public Audited or not. Keep it Hon Sunday Chanda. We need reports from all CDF committees throughout Zambia ruling partyMPs or oppositionparty MPs. Thanks Hon. Sunday Chanda to set the standards.