Call for Applications: Constituency Development Fund 2026 (Zambia)

Categories

• Community Projects
• Youth, Women, and Community Empowerment Grants
• Empowerment Loans
• Secondary Boarding School and Skills Development Bursaries

Funding Information

• Groups may qualify for a maximum of K40,000.00 as a one-off grant.

Eligibility Criteria

• Secondary Boarding School Bursaries
  • A learner must meet the following criteria:
    • Must be enrolled at a particular boarding school.
    • Must be a resident of the constituency in which the fund is sitting.
    • Must have qualified to Grade Eight (8) or already enrolled in Grade 9 to 12.
    • School dropout who failed to pay school fees.
    • Learners enrolled in boarding schools but accommodated in nearby villages due to failure to pay boarding fees.
    • Learner who has failed to pay boarding fees but is enrolled at a boarding school.
    • Double orphaned learners where the guardian has no reliable source of income.
    • Single orphaned learner where the surviving parent has no reliable source of income.
    • A learner with a disability whose vulnerability shall be determined.
    • Learners whose parents are disabled and have no reliable source of income.
    • Learners on the school re-entry project without family support.
    • Learners from a poor, vulnerable, and incapacitated household.
• Skills Development Bursaries
  • Applicants must:
    • Be a Zambian citizen with a Green National Registration Card and resident in the constituency.
    • Be a resident of the constituency for more than 6 months.
    • Possess an admission letter from any of the TEVET institutions or ZNS.
    • Be aged between 16 and below 35 years.
    • Include entrepreneurs out of school who need up-skilling and re-skilling.
• Empowerment Grants
  • Eligible applicants include:
    • Cooperatives, Clubs, Associations, and Organised Groups.
    • Must have a minimum of ten (10) members.
    • Proof of a bank account or mobile wallet registered for the group.
    • Proposals must provide employment opportunities.
    • The proposed project must be undertaken within the constituency.
    • Applicants must have resided in the constituency for over 6 months.
• Empowerment Loans
  • Applicants must:
    • Be a legally registered business, organization, company, group, cooperative, enterprise, or club fully owned by Zambians.
    • Present a viable business/project proposal.
    • Provide proof of a bank account or mobile wallet.
    • Ensure proposals provide employment opportunities.
    • Ensure the proposed project is being undertaken within the constituency.
    • Have been residents in the constituency for over 6 months.

For more information, visit Namwala Town Council.