A process evaluation of performance-based incentives for village health workers in Kisoro district, Uganda

Table 2 Annual program expenditures ¹

Category	Item	Annual cost ($)²
VHW stipends	VHW stipends	$4,953 (27.5%)
Training	Materials (incl. VHW lunch, snack, and transportation refunds)	$3,795
	Facilitator pay	$891
	Standardized patient program	$805
	Total	$5,490 (30.5%)
Supervision	Supervisor pay	$3,251
	Transportation	$1,779
	Total	$5,030 (27.9%)
Administration	Staff pay	$1,856
	Cell phone airtime	$340
	Total	$2,195 (12.2%)
Donated costs	Program forms	$331 (1.8%)
Total costs	Annual total cost	$18,000 (100%)
	Annual total cost – per VHW	$516
	Annual total cost – per household served	$4.61
	Annual total cost – per individual served³	$1.12

¹For VHW stipends, actual expenditures were used. For all other categories, budgeted expenditures were used. This will tend to overestimate training costs, since it assumes 100% attendance at training.
²An exchange rate of 2,120 Ugandan shillings per dollar has been used, the exchange rate as of May 1, 2010 (historical exchange rate obtained from: XE Current and Historical Rate Tables [http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=UGX&view=2Y], accessed July 5, 2011).
³Population of villages served estimated using the average household size for Muramba subcounty (taken from: Uganda Bureau of Statistics, 2002 Uganda Population and Housing Census: Kisoro District Report. Entebbe: Uganda Bureau of Statistics, November 2005).

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