2. Available expertise, tools used
• Expertise
– Staffing in flux
• David Doledec, former POC, left FANTA end of June ‘14
• Tina Lloren will replace David in mid Sept.
• Gilles Bergeron serves as interim POC
– Additional staff resources
• Kavita Sethuraman
• Maggie Fischer
– A FANTA Technical Brief will be prepared after September,
documenting our experience in use of Costing so far
• Tools used
– ABC is the preferred methodology
– FANTA developed specific spreadsheet tools (ABC-based) for NACS,
CMAM
• CMAM includes only nutrition specific actions
• NACS may include also nutrition sensitive (preventive, health-related) actions
3. Support Provided by FANTA on
Costing:
Countries, Method, Focus
Country Method Focus
Nutrition specific Nutrition sensitive
GMP MNP, S CF CMAM Fort WASH Imm PNC NES
Bangladesh
(2010)
ABC+MI
√ √ √ √ √ √ √
Guatemala
(ongoing)
ABC
√ √ √ √ √ √ √
Ghana
(2011)
ABC-
based
√
ABC: Activity Based Costing MI: Mixed Ingredients
GMP: Growth Monitoring/Promotion; MNP, S: Micronutrient powders, other supplementation; CF: Complementary
feeding/SBC;
CMAM: Community Management of Acute Malnutrition; Fort: Fortification; WASH: Water and Sanitation for Health;
Imm: Immunization; PNC: Prenatal/postnatal care; NES: Nutrition Education in Schools
4. Other past/present/future countries of investment
Country Status Comment
Cote
d’Ivoire
Interested Agreement reached on doing PROFILES. Costing may follow. CI is a
SUN country so MQ SUN may do the costing
Tanzania Interested Agreement reached on doing PROFILES. Costing may follow. TZ is a
SUN country so MQ SUN may do the costing. Politically sensitive
Indonesia Interested Agreement reached on doing PROFILES. Costing may follow. USAID
weighing funding options
Uganda Interested Discussions ongoing. PROFILES was carried out. There is interest in
doing costing at the Sub-national level
Zambia Interested Discussions ongoing. There is interest in doing costing at the Sub-
national level after PROFILES is carried out
Ethiopia Cancelled PROFILES was carried out. There was interest in Costing but GFDRE
felt the process took too long, so did it on its own
Haiti Cancelled PROFILES was carried out. There was interest in Costing but that
was not done due to lack of funding
