Estimate costs for a prevention programme

Phase

Capital Cost

Recurrent Costs

START UP 1: Intervention Development 

– Period when curriculum or activities are initially designed

– Staff / consultant time for design 
– Production costs for materials

START-UP 2: Design / Adaptation – Process of making the curriculum, manual or activities specific to the target population

– Time for curriculum and materials adaptation/ translation 
– Production costs for materials
– Training of staff / facilitators
– Stakeholder meetings
– Pre-testing in situ – time, travel, logistics
– Time for materials revision

START-UP 3: Set up Period of community entry and training of frontline staff

– Recruit frontline staff
– Community outreach / stakeholder meetings
– Demand creation / advocacy
– Development of programme tools
– Training staff, partners, community facilitators

IMPLEMENTATION PHASE – Time between when the first and last clients receive the intervention

– Equipment
– Buildings: spaces 
– Buildings: furniture 
– Vehicles
– Public events and campaigns
– Monitoring and evaluation budget

– Salaried staff: local and international
– Volunteer staff (time costed)
– Ongoing training of staff, partners, service providers and community members
– Self and collective care costs
– Network and collaboration meetings
– Supplies
– Building utilities and maintenance 
– Transport: fuel and maintenance
– Transport: public transportation/rental 
– Per diems and allowances