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Table 5 Cost of deploying targets

From: Delivering ‘tiny targets’ in a remote region of southern Chad: a cost analysis of tsetse control in the Mandoul sleeping sickness focus

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

  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