Financing, costing and budgeting
Financing, costing and budgeting
Overview
Helping clients spend enough and spend well on human development.
Spending enough money, and spending it well, is a core function for human development organisations. Most organisations, governments in particular, allocate budgets on a historical basis rather than using a clear-eyed analysis of costs, needs or returns. They then often struggle to spend budgets, especially non-salary budgets, as planned.
With rapid changes in needs and opportunities, and immediate fiscal pressures from Covid-19, a more proactive approach to financing is often needed. We help clients improve financing, costing, budgeting and spending through rigorous analysis and diagnostics, modelling of costs and returns, resource mapping, innovative financing solutions, and the facilitation of conversations between finance and service delivery ministries.
Projects
Building the case for an investment in ECD in Burundi
Genesis Analytics partnered with UNICEF and the Government of Burundi to build the case for multi-sectoral early childhood development (ECD) investments in the country and recommend the package of ECD interventions that is optimal to boost the development of its youngest generation and, thus, of the nation as a whole.
Counting the health costs of VAT on soap in Madagascar
Genesis Analytics partnered with UNICEF and the Government in Madagascar to evaluate whether an exemption in the value-added tax on soap would increase access to soap and achieve better WASH-related outcomes, and drive tax policy decision-making based on the recommendations derived from the evaluation.
Assessing performance of family planning financing
Genesis conducted family-planning performance assessment for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to identify key improvement areas in family-planning financing for three countries and created a tool that supports alignment between the foundation’s health and family-planning financing strategies.
