Table 1.
Average cost of daily allowance and transport cost per facility visit
| Country* | Average inputs | Daily allowance and transport cost per visit ($) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supervisors per visit | Days per facility (visit plus travel time) | Daily allowance ($) | Lodging included in daily allowance† | Transport cost per day ($) | Vehicle origin | ||
| Ghana | 4 | 1.14 | $12.00 | No | $110.50 | Hire | $180.38 |
| Kenya‡ | 2 | 1.25 | $7.50 | No | $10.00 | N/A–Stipend | $43.64 |
| Malawi | 2 | 0.84 | $12.90 | Some | $124.00 | Hire | $125.99 |
| Mali | 2.1§ | 1.03 | $15.00 | Some | $45.00 | Government | $78.80 |
| Mozambique | 2 | 1.56 | $32.00 | Yes | $150.00 | Hire | $332.89 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 0.74 | $55.00 | No | $79.00 | Government | $181.64 |
| Zambia | 2 | 1.48 | $15.67 | Some | $48.84 | Government | $119.01 |
Costs for Democratic Republic of the Congo are not shown because their most recent outreach training and supportive supervision rounds followed an intensive mentorship model, whereby supervisors spent additional days at each facility.
* Madagascar is not included, as only a small number of health facilities were visited near the capital.
† Lodging was included for a proportion of supervisors, depending on whether they had to travel far from their home base. The daily allowance reported is the average across all supervisors.
‡ In Kenya, transport costs are distributed as travel allowances to each supervisor. To calculate the transport cost per visit, the transport cost per day must be multiplied by the number of supervisors per visit, as well as days spent per facility.
§ In Mali, one of every nine supervision teams had three people; the rest had two.