Childhood Cost Calculator (C3)

The C3 and resources available on the website are free to use. Should you require more support, please contact us to discuss your specific needs.

While the survey/costing tool itself is easiest completed by a single individual, the process will likely involve some combination of the following teams/individuals: program management/administration, finance, and/or monitoring and evaluation.

While this is difficult to predict and depends on the size and complexity of the program, availability of data, and skillset of the individual(s) completing the exercise, we believe that it may take a few days to a week of labor time once the data are located.

Programs will need to enter all costs needed for the design and implementation of the program, as outlined in the cost categories and resource types described in the guidance document. This may involve data from financial systems/records, as well as management or M&E systems. This includes: the resources, their unit cost, annual units needed of the resource, and for, investment costs, the lifetime usage (in years) of the resource.

Currently the cost calculator is available in English. We hope to release the cost calculator in additional languages in 2024.

While it is not required that you contribute the aggregated data (we never have access to and do not publish the disaggregated data), we hope that you choose to contribute to the database for the purpose of increasing transparency on costs of delivering interventions for children across the globe.