Because I am a compulsive list-maker, I have kept a catalogue of the recurrent items.
Unit costs of recurrent items were collected by interviewing BRAC personnel who were involved in supplying those items.
Information on recurrent items including their amount and price during the reference year was extracted from the stock register.
The economic costs of transport, building maintenance and communication and other recurrent items were also valued using project expenditure.
The equipment, machinery and furniture having a life-span less than one year were not considered as capital items; rather these were considered as recurrent items.
The annualized value of capital items was added to the total costs of recurrent items to get the overall start-up cost.
Information will be collected on recurrent items (e.g., staff, supplies and reagents) and capital costs (e.g., building, equipment and furniture).
For both capital and recurrent items, the LTs were interviewed to figure out the percentage of time used for inpatient and outpatient services.
The recurrent items included personnel (salaries and benefits of surveillance officers, data managers, physicians, nurses, etc)., rent (rent, utilities, operation, and maintenance), office and laboratory supplies, transportation, public awareness campaigns and short-term training.
In both cases, in addition to travel and daily allowances for each CHW a significant amount of staff-time, venue rent, supplies and use of capital and recurrent items occur.
