The following table provides the unit costs (in $US equivalents) on which the budget is based.
BASES FOR COSTING | ||
Budget Category
| Unit | Amount in $ US |
Personnel*: Management Technical Support | Staff week |
UIA DA 2,940 1,600 2,380 1,150 1,470 730
|
Travel: Air travel and public transport Accommodation and meals Private car use |
Per trip Per trip Per km |
At cost At cost 0.45 |
Contractual Services | Per contract | At cost |
Equipment | Per item | Invoice total (including sales tax) |
*NOTE: Rates for UIA are 175% of salary costs (including all social costs). The extra 75% covers all operational overheads for the organisation that are not project-related (with independent budgets), including its office rent and services, equipment and depreciation, communications, insurance, taxes, administration overheads and other similar items related to maintaining an office in Brussels. In the case of DA, the personnel rates include salary and related costs, overheads for running its operations in India (head office in Delhi and branch offices elsewhere) and its training, employment and civil society activities not otherwise funded.
The following table is the budget for the INTERCEPT project activities. It should be noted that these activities are new and required to meet the objectives of the INTERCEPT project; they are not covered by any other budgets of associated projects that have been mentioned in this proposal.
TOTAL ACTIVITY BUDGET infoDev INTERCEPT PROJECT
| |||
Item | Weeks | Subtotal | Total $US |
Staff
|
UIA DA 25 20 56 80 47 64 |
105,500 234,800 115,080 |
445,860 |
Travel
|
20,000 30,000 |
50,000 | |
Contract services
|
22,000
| ||
Equipment: 3 x complete PC workstations (computer, printer, network connections, modem etc) |
48,000 | ||
Communications services Phone, fax, courier, etc |
34,000 | ||
Documentation and reporting Printing, binding, purchase of publications etc |
10,000 | ||
TOTAL ACTIVITY COST $US
|
609,860 | ||
NOTES ON THE INTERCEPT BUDGET:
1. The estimated total of the budget required by UIA and its consultants/contractors is US $407,840 = 67%.
2. The estimated total of the budget required by DA is $202,000 = 33%.