Quality assured Technical Assistance for HIV and AIDS
Programmes when you need it
Programmes when you need it
Guide to the Resource Pack on
HIV/AIDS Strategic Planning,
Operational Planning, and Costing
Folder 3 - National strategies and plans
Operational Planning, and Costing
Folder 3 - National strategies and plans
| No | Title | Summary | Type | Reference |
| 2.1 | Costing an AIDS plan | Very brief summary to assist in the process of costing an HIV/AIDS plan, using activity-based costing. | UNDP (undated) | |
| 2.2 | Step-by-step guide to costing | This guide explains the eight steps that are necessary to calculate the costs of an HIV/AIDS programme. | PHR plus(2001) | |
| 2.3 | Introduction to budgeting and accounting | BOND’s 9-page beginner’s guide to budgeting and costing, including user-friendly explanations of relevant jargon. | Bond / Cammack (undated) | |
| 2.4 | How managers make resource allocation decisions | Background paper coming out of a research project to improve the resource allocation process for HIV/AIDS prevention and care activities. | Futures Group International (2000) | |
| 2.5 | Resource Needs Model | This complex model uses Excel spreadsheets (resource 2.5) to calculate the total resources needed for prevention, care, and orphan support for HIV/AIDS on a national level. The RNM can assist national-level strategic planning efforts by providing a tool and methodology to examine the financial resources needed to implement a variety of prevention interventions, care and treatment programs, and orphan support. Supporting documents include an introductory presentation (2.5.1), manual (2.5.2), plus an extract from the Resource Needs Model manual highlights the five main steps in using the RNM approach (2.5.3). | 2.5 Excel spreadsheet 2.5.1 PowerPoint presentation 2.5.2 and 2.5.3 PDF |
FGI, INSP, UCT (2006) ASAP (2005) IDB (2002) |
| 2.6 | Calculating prevention costs | This presentation summarises the use of the Resource Needs Model for the prevention interventions of a national strategy. | PowerPoint presentation | Forsythe (2005) |
| 2.7 | Calculating care and treatment costs | This presentation summarises the use of the Resource Needs Model for the care and treatment interventions of a national strategy. | PowerPoint presentation | Gutierrez (2005) |
| 2.8 | Goals model | Goals is intended to support strategic planning at the national level by providing a tool to link program goals and funding. The Goals resources include the software/spreadsheet (2.8), input data spreadsheet (2.8.1), flyer on Goals (2.8.2) and manual (2.8.3) | 2.8 and 2.8.1 Excel spreadsheets 2.8.2 and 2.8.3 PDF |
Constella Futures (2006) |
| 2.9 | AIDSTreatCost (ATC) Model | The ATC model is designed to estimate the costs and resources required to implement an ARV program under various assumptions and scenarios that the model allows the users to define. The model can be tailored to country-specific situations using local data. It can be accessed on a CD-ROM or via the internet. Sections 1.4 and 2.1 of the manual (2.9) outline how to get started. Website reference: http://www.phrplus.org/hiv-atc.html | Software from CD-ROM or website | Abt Associates and PHR plus(2002) |
| 2.10 | Activity based costing | This presentation explains activity based costing for HIV/AIDS and includes lessons learnt from a pilot project | PowerPoint presentation | Abt Associates (2001) |
| 2.11 | Cost budgeting example | This resource provides an example of a spreadsheet for calculating inputs and cost estimates for HIV programmes. | Excel spreadsheet | ASAP & UNAIDS |
| 2.12 | Costing guidelines for HIV prevention strategies | The specific aim of these guidelines is to encourage and enable managers of HIV prevention projects and programmes to conduct cost analysis. They can be used to assess projects/programmes at national, regional, district and community levels. | UNAIDS (2000) | |
| 2.13 | ASAP costing case study | This paper shares lessons of costing a national AIDS strategy, drawing on specific experiences in Swaziland and Guyana and overall lessons drawn from world-wide experience. Recommendations are made for utilizing the best features of the tools described to help improve the strategic planning process and improve the effectiveness of national systems to support overall HIV/AIDS response. | ASAP (2006) n.b. draft | |
| 2.14 | Costs of scaling HIV and AIDS programs | This is a technical paper written for an audience of costing people and national planners. It develops and discusses a resource determination model designed to estimate how much it would cost to scale-up different HIV prevention and care strategies to a national level in Sub-Saharan Africa. The model combines cost-studies with detailed information on sexual behaviour, condom availability, HIV prevalence and other epidemiological, demographic and health systems. The model yields estimates of the costs of scaling-up ten different HIV prevention and eight care strategies for 37 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa | World Bank (2001) | |
| 2.15 | Group work – data for decision-making | This document presents three case studies relating to the issue of data for decision-making, i.e. data gaps which currently exist and the data that would be required in order to fully fill; these gaps. | Word document | Forsythe |
| 2.16 | Costing and cost-effectiveness exercises | Document 2.16 contains exercises that aim to provide participants with the practical experience of costing HIV/AIDS related programmes, and performing a cost-effectiveness analysis. Spreadsheet 2.16.1 contains the answers to the exercises. | 2.16 Word document 2.16.1 Excel spreadsheet |