Table 5.
Cost of deploying targets
| Item (percentage of two years’ total costs) | 2015 (USD) |
2016 (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Specialised equipment (25.8%) | ||
| Targetsa | 3000 | 3000 |
| Target insurance and freight | 1050 | 930 |
| Target assembly and fixing: cutting up 12,000 sticks and assembling of targets | 506 | 101 |
| String, wire and glue | 452 | 295 |
| Transport (14.4%) | ||
| Vehicle hire | 1973 | 2108 |
| Fuel | 422 | 547 |
| Canoe hire (5 days, from several jetties) | 84 | 84 |
| Staff (43.0%) | ||
| Share of staff salaries | 3188 | 3895 |
| Travel allowances | 3744 | 4755 |
| Local labour (3.8%) | ||
| Supervisor, guard | 110 | 599 |
| CSSEs incentive payments | – | 658 |
| Administrative support (9.1%) | 1599 | 1698 |
| Consumables and equipment (3.9%) | ||
| GPS sets (depreciation) | 68 | 68 |
| GPS sets batteries | 101 | 51 |
| Fuel for generator | 49 | 74 |
| Digital camera (depreciation) | 105 | 105 |
| Stationery (markers, batteries, etc.) | 68 | 9 |
| Machetes (depreciation, 2 year life) | 253 | 253 |
| Sundries, including internet | 84 | 134 |
| Total | 16,856 | 19,364 |
| Cost per km2 protected | 20.1 | 23.1 |
aThe number of targets actually deployed in 2015 and 2016 was 2708, as numbers were slightly increased from the original number of 2600 deployed in 2014 [21]. However, as 3000 targets were ordered, assembled, and paid for each year the full number is included here