VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PREVENTION PROGRAMMING GUIDE

Estimate costs for a prevention programme

Evidence

The UK-funded What Works programme developed a methodology to cost prevention programs. The key cost elements are summarised in the table below and supplemented by practitioner feedback. You can use this to start to calculate possible costs in you setting.

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

Plan
Understand
Design
Implement
Measure