Table 2

Total costs by input, outputs and average costs of the Avahan programme for the first 2 years of activity (2004/2005 and 2005/2006), US$ 2006 prices

Total costs (NGO and LP levels) by input	Financial (US$)	Economic (US$)	Percentage of total economic cost
Capital costs
Rent	710436	721443	4.3
Equipment	233911	327933	2.0
Furniture and fixtures	89731	137115	0.8
Vehicle	88008	131995	0.8
Training (start-up)	33821	40929	0.2
Insurance and deposits	28652	35521	0.2
Start up	626351	728065	4.3
Subtotal	1810910	2123000	12.7
Recurrent costs
Personnel	6624189	6770706	40.4
Travel	1286108	1286141	7.7
Building operating and maintenance	952567	949977	5.7
STI supplies	1342251	1343331	8.0
Monitoring	931288	930936	5.6
Information education communication	867658	872300	5.2
Training recurrent	1283786	1290585	7.7
Condom supplies	120132	627755	3.7
Indirect expenses	560467	564456	3.4
Subtotal	13968446	14636189	87.3
Total	15779356	16759189	100.0
Total costs by organisational level		US$	Percentage of total
NGO level		8030991	28.0
Lead implementing partner level		8728198	30.4
Avahan Delhi office costs*		3944959	13.7
Capacity building partner costs*		9006456	31.3
All level costs*		28730771
Outputs of the programme
Total number of people registered†			134391
Total number of people receiving STI services‡			124669
Average costs	Mean	Median	Range
Total cost per NGO at the NGO level (US$)	153646	128192	20287 to 532112
People registered at the NGO level†	1908	1930	37 to 6315
Cost per person registered (US$)†	166	76	18 to 650
People receiving STI services at the NGO level‡	1955	1950	7 to 8004
Cost per person receiving STI services (US$)‡	134	117	37 to 411
Sensitivity analysis (discount rate=3%)
Total economic cost US$	16605094
Total cost per NGO at the NGO level (US$)	153650	124269	20008 to 541692
Cost per person registered (US$)†	163	75	18 to 616
Cost per person receiving STI services (US$)‡	79	112	22 to 411

↵* Financial costs only.
↵† No of non-governmental organisations (NGOs)=93.
↵‡ No of NGOs=96.