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The Best Use of Resources initiative aims to increase the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡â€™s own effectiveness, and the effectiveness of the humanitarian system as a whole.

The glossary is intended to bring clarity to internal and external audiences on terminology use within the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Airbel Best Use of Resources (BUR) Team. Definitions included here reflect how terminology is used within BUR, as compared to the wider evaluation sector. References are included to allow for comparison with other uses of such terminology by others including but not limited to: USAID, FCDO, JPAL, Elrha, Better Evaluation, Oxford Policy Management, World Bank, World Food Programme.

The ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡â€™s unconditional cash transfer programs range in cost efficiency from 14 cents for every dollar transferred up to $1.32 for every dollar transferred.

The ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ is committed to maximizing the impact of each dollar spent to improve clients' lives. If we have better information about the cost efficiency and cost effectiveness of our interventions, we will be more effective at doing so.

The analysis examines eight community management of acute malnutrition programs, looking at how variations in program features, as well as differences in the contexts in which these programs were run, impacted their cost efficiency.

From 2019-2022, the Every Adolescent Girl Empowered and Resilient (EAGER) project was implemented in Sierra Leone with the aim of empowering out-of-school (OOS) girls ages 13-19 through a learning program that integrated functional literacy, numeracy, financial literacy, and life skills. The ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡â€™s (̽»¨¾«Ñ¡) Best Use of Resources (BUR) team developed a scenario model to understand the cost structure of EAGER and maximize efficiency as the program scales to reach more girls in more communities.

This analysis covers six ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ case management programs in five countries and includes programs providing services within refugee/IDP camps and in urban settings.

This analysis seeks to examine whether there are latrine-building programs that deliver the same output at different costs.

This analysis examines six legal case management projects in Iraq to asses whether local partners are more cost efficient than large international NGOs.

This analysis compares the cost efficiency between non-food item programs and unconditional cash transfer programs.