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Table 3 Cost comparison between LIG and other support programs received by comparator households (EUR)

From: Cost-effectiveness of community vegetable gardens for people living with HIV in Zimbabwe

Cost center inputs

LIG

Comparator‡

Community sensitization

  

Institutional costs:

  

  Personnel

23,668

11,913

  Support costs allocated*

37,217

 

Cost center total (% total)

60,885 (3.0%)

11,913 (8.1%)

Garden set-up

  

Institutional costs:

  

  Personnel

50,515

 

  Travel / transportation

459

 

  Local office

111

 

  Other costs, services

3,185

 

  Program activities

299,289

 

  Support costs allocated*

202,729

 

Beneficiary costs:

  

  Beneficiary time

24,709

 

  Value of donated land

8,734

 

Cost center total (% total)

589,731 (29.1%)

-?€-

Training and capacity-building

  

Institutional costs:

  

  Personnel

110,274

10,695

  Local office

163

 

  Program activities

115,060

50,461

  Support costs allocated*

373,115

 

Beneficiary costs:

  

  Beneficiary time¥

73,542¥

73,542

Cost center total (% total)

672,154 (33.1%)

134,698 (91.9%)

Garden upkeep, monitoring and follow-up

  

Institutional costs:

  

  Personnel

115,683

 

  Travel / transportation

459

 

  Local office

111

 

  Program activities

77,232

 

  Support costs allocated*

317,372

 

Beneficiary costs:

  

  Beneficiary time

163,412

 

  Household income from vegetable sales†

-138,272†

 

Cost center total (% total)

535,997 (26.4%)

-?€-

Conservation farming

  

Institutional costs:

  

  Personnel

17,494

 

  Program activities

85,773

 

  Support costs allocated*

66,459

 

Cost center total (% total)

169,726 (8.4%)

-?€-

Total cost

2,028,493 €

146,611 €

Institutional cost

1,896,368 €

73,069 €

Beneficiary cost

132,125 €

73,542 €

  1. Costs in this column represent other support programs received by comparator households, who did not participate in the LIG program. These additional HIV and agricultural support programs were received by all households (both LIG participants and comparators) and therefore represent common costs between both groups.
  2. *Support costs include cost of program management and support which are shared among program activities. These costs came from ACF accounting and so are assigned to the group receiving the LIG program, which ACF implemented. These costs were allocated to each program activity using an activity-based costing methodology.
  3. ¥This line represents beneficiary time in Agritex extension training sessions on general agricultural techniques; this is not an LIG-specific cost and is common to both LIG participants and comparator households.
  4. †This line represents the financial benefit to participant households from vegetable sales, included as a negative cost in this analysis.