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What are the Social Development Grants for?

The Social development sector focusses on the promotion of social protection, equality, equity, human rights, culture, suitable working conditions, employment, and the vulnerable groups such as the women, children, the unemployed youth, Internally Displaced Persons, the Elderly, Persons with Disability, which are often marginalized and excluded from the benefits of economic growth.

To read the Official guidelines on the Social Development Grants click here!

Social development objectives are to:
(i) Promote decent employment opportunities and labour productivity (ii) Enhance effective participation of communities in the development process (iii) Improve the resilience and productive capacity of the vulnerable persons for inclusive growth (iv) Improve the capacity of youth to harness their potential and increase self-employment, productivity and competitiveness (v) Promote rights, gender equality and women’s empowerment in the development process (vi) Improve the performance of the SDS institutions (vii) Redress imbalances and promote equal opportunities for all

In line with the Inter-governmental Fiscal Transfer Reform Programme, allocations to Local Government are formula based. You can explore the grant below:

Social Development NWR