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1- Indirect costing: In protracted emergencies, in September, partners are requested to summarize and upload their planned projects for the next year on OPS website. Cluster coordinators can be asked to pre-validate their project making sure they meet minimum criteria. Operational Response Plan’s cost can be calculated by adding up requested budgets from all approved partner’s planned proposals. This method can be used in sudden onset emergencies
- Pros: quick, participative, field oriented, partners can in theory factor in their capacity
- Cons: can be very inaccurate
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-Partners have tendency to overestimate their funding requirements, and do not necessarily factor in access and capacity
-Difficult to estimate geographic/program overlapping. Partners will not do it between themselves, as they are anyway in competition for funding
-Subjective, based on partner’s estimation
2- Direct costing: WCC use caseload figures, priority activities and unit prices to estimate total response budget him/herself. Activities/beneficiaries unit costs can be estimated directly, or taken from partners’ former projects’ final report (reports’ budget are indeed preferred to proposal ‘s budget, as cost are usually more accurate).
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