GUFOVA costing tool The EU-funded project Growing Up Free Of Violence and Abuse (GUFOVA) seeks to enhance the work with children, who have witnessed direct or indirect violence in their homes. In addition to creating and sharing knowledge for practical work with children, the GUFOVA project also aims at providing institutions with a costing tool that helps them to convince funders that money spent on such children is not only an ethically correct but also a significant economically efficient choice. The first part of the excel based tool shows the societal costs as well as the costs per child based on the literature review and two rounds of expert interviews. Numbers for effected population are based on demographics (Eurostat 2019; 2012 for Bosnia and Herzegowina). The prevalence is based on estimations of occurrence by Habetha 2012 (14,5%) and are only based on the further estimation of extreme cases: 21%. The costs per child are then again based on Habetha (2012). Purchasing power parities (Eurostat 2019) are used for cross country comparison. The tool shows the results in local currencies (exchange rates: January 2021) for each country. The tool allows yearly corrections for inflation to keep these numbers up to date. The second part of the tool works with the identified beneficial factors for intervention programs, that were deducted from a second set of literature. Those have then been evaluated and weighted via expert estimations which is reflected in an estimation formula based on indexation which runs in the background of the tool. The efficiency of programs especially for kids in shelters is especially considered in those estimations. The third part of the tool connects the societal costs with benefits of intervention programs. Users of the tool need to input program costs and the number of children reached in the program. Program characteristics can then be chosen which will result in estimating the effectiveness of the program. Results are displayed as monetary costs in national currencies as well as percentages of GDP for comparison. Benefits are displayed as monetary estimates and in numbers of children that will not experience adverse long-run effects. There is an option to add program costs per child reached, or simply total program costs.
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