Incremental financial costs of strengthening large-scale child nutrition programs in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Vietnam: retrospective expenditure analysis

Table 1 Total and annual costs of complementary feeding programs by country (2022 USD)

Program Component	Bangladesh	Ethiopia	Vietnam
Incremental program costs
Planning, Strategy, Formative Research	184,286	437,341	295,547
Materials Design and Production	179,787	1,294,340	444,642
Counseling, Training, Community Mobilization	6,188,236	3,736,014	1,185,554
Public Education and Mass Media	3,014,636	735,890	1,175,091
Program Monitoring	357,191	95,283	366,525
Management and Administration¹	575,339	899,152	462,345
Total Program Costs	10,499,475	7,198,020	3,929,704
Duration
Total program duration (period of exposure)	4.7 years (46 months)	4.0 years (30 months)	4.1 years (36 months)
Annual Program Costs	2,233,931	1,799,505	958,464

Note: ¹ Some management and administration costs were loaded onto other cost elements and are reflected in the rows above

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