Improving immunization coverage and equity - technical resources
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| Resource | Community Health Planning and Costing Tool |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Costing packages of community health services and to assess performance, plan future services, and prepare investment cases. |
| Content | Designed to cost packages of community health services and produce results to help assess performance, plan future services, and prepare investment cases. It is a spreadsheet-based tool designed to be used by health system managers and policy makers. It allows users to calculate the costs of all elements of comprehensive CHS packages, including start-up, training and community-level service delivery costs as well as support, supervision and management costs at all levels of the health system. The tool also has a financing element that can be used to show programme financing sources and gaps in current and future funding. It is used for estimating resource requirements. It automatically produces total programme costs for baseline year and five-year projections, costs per capita, per community health workers, per contact, per program and per resource type. Incremental costs and financing, key drivers of costs and cost categories as a percent of total costs, and five-year projections of financing and financial gaps with sources of funding. The dynamic nature of the tool means that the final cost results are based on key variables, such as target populations, incidence rates and service delivery platforms. When a user modifies such variables, changes are immediately and automatically reflected in all component costs. Dynamic costing tools are suitable for planning because the cost impact of changes related to planning assumptions can be seen immediately and fed back into the planning process. |
| Use | Requires user input to some extent. The tool automatically produces key results, but requires update/input on key variables such as target populations, incidence rates and service delivery platforms. |
| Contraints/Limitations | As this is a costing tool, it is important to have realistic planning assumptions and make sure the key variable data is the latest availble data. |
| Example criteria this resource could address | Information on total programme costs, costs per capita, per community health worker, incremental costs and financing, key drivers of costs, etc. |
| Additional Links | |
| Link to access the resource | /en/component/content/article/community-health-planning-and-costing-tool?catid=651&Itemid=101 |