Reproductive Health Cost Reporting System

Author(s): MEASURE Evaluation

Year: 2018

Abstract:

Program managers, finance directors, and funders often want to know the cost of delivering services. To answer this, programs often undertake or commission cost studies. Such studies take time, can be expensive, and provide snapshot information of a point in time. Organizations frequently collect service delivery data and track expenditures on human resources and labor and medical supplies, including pharmaceuticals and other regularly incurred office and equipment expenses. Yet these data are rarely assessed together. A better way may be to harness the basic information already available to an organization in real time—housed in its tracking systems and service delivery records. That is where the Reproductive Health Cost Reporting System (RHCRS) can assist.

This resource provides an overview of the RHCRS. A user guide is also available.