Track20's FP Costing 101: Costing and Economic Evaluation for Family Planning Programs is an online training course meant to provide family planning professionals with the tools to conduct basic costing exercises and analyses to help with program planning, evaluation, and monitoring.

Estimating costs is an important component of informing decision making when implementing health interventions. Cost data can be used in a variety of ways: as a planning tool to help identify priority activities that fit within a set budget, or as an oversight tool to monitor annual spending to support interventions.

Outside of the Family Planning Spending Assessments (FPSAs), there is no routine tracking of financial data within the FP space. By using the modules found in this training, you will learn:

• What is costing and how can it be used for family planning programs?
• Why is costing important and what can it tell me?
• How do I conduct a costing exercise?
• How do I interpret and use the results?

This training module is designed to equip FP professionals with the tools to:

• Understand the theory and methodology behind costing and economic evaluation and how to use them as program planning tools
• Facilitate country or program-specific costing trainings using materials provided in this module

What topics are covered?

This training was developed by the Track20 project and is freely available. For more about Track20, visit http://www.track20.org . Another training on Activity-Based Costing and Management (ABC/M), a costing approach often used by Track20, is also available on the Track20 website.

To learn more about how to work through the FP Costing 101 training, click Next to continue to Instructions.

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