[1]:1 Ghana's CDF was instituted in 1996, when members of parliament were allocated 5% of the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF).
[2]:17 India has two CDF systems: the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) at the national level and the Member of Legislative Assembly Local Area Development Fund (MLA-LAD) for the Legislative Assembly of each of India’s 28 states.
[1]:27 The Kenyan Constituency Development Fund (CDF) was introduced in 2003 during the Kibaki presidency.
[4] It targeted all constituency-level development projects, particularly those aiming to combat poverty at the grassroots.
[5] The CDF program has facilitated the putting up of new water, health and education facilities in all parts of the country, including remote areas that were usually overlooked during funds allocation in national budgets.