MQSUN

Stocktaking

Planning, Costing and FinancingCommunity of Practice

FAO

WHO

FANTA

World Bank

Questions

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

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 IngredientsGMP: 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

Other past/present/future countries of investmentCountry 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