Costing tools
Malaria Costing Tool
World Health Organization
Estimates the resource requirements of proven malaria interventions over a period of time. The tool is based on a review of costing studies and an extensive consultation with malaria experts. It provides a simple user interface requiring only basic technical and computer skills. The tool is intended for use by malaria control program staff as well as other individuals working in the field of malaria.
In the Tool, the following preventive and curative interventions are covered: Insecticide-treated nets (ITN), Targeted indoor residual spraying (IRS), Source reduction, Intermittent preventive treatment (IPT), Antimalarial case management, Community/Home-based Antimalarial Treatment, Treatment of Complicated Malaria and Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons. The tool estimates the costs of various resources used by the selected interventions. In addition, some of the crucial health system costs have been covered. The costs are calculated for the national level.
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Summary of main features
| Purpose | Determine the financial costs associated with scale-up of malaria interventions in a specified period of time |
| Health MDGs addressed | 6 (malaria) |
| Scope of interventions | From preventive to curative; include programme activities in the costing |
| Type of software | Excel |
| User manual available? | Yes |
| Potential users | Malaria program managers, consultants and academics |
| Skills required | Degrees in epidemiology, economics and statistics are useful but not necessary. Essential is a familiarity with local epidemiology of malaria and programmatic considerations plus ability to use spreadsheets |
| Type and length of training required | No formal training necessary |
| Costing strategy and methods | Driven by target intervention coverage; ingredients approach (separate quantities and prices at level of inputs for activities and interventions) |
| Level of aggregation | National |
| Program/system costs included? | Yes |
| Time-frame | Short-term to medium-term |
| Modeling of intervention impact or interactions on epidemiology or demography? | Available as an option but only to adjust need for intervention in case there is interaction among the interventions(e.g. prevention of fevers with ITNs and need for malaria treatment) but not to estimate health outcome |
| Output: | Stream of inputs and costs by year, by intervention in USD or National Currency Unit (NCU) |
| Automatic generation of reports? | Yes |
| Country applications | Zambia, Mozambique, Angola |