Purpose: build a clear, costed budget for a research, evaluation or assessment assignment. Add line items under standard categories (personnel/consultancy fees, data collection, travel, materials, dissemination and other direct costs), set quantities and unit costs, and the tool totals each category and the grand total. Use the staffing-days helper to cost consultant time.
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Cost a consultant or team member's time; add the result as a budget line.
The budget builder follows the MoECHE research & evaluation budget template — grouping costs into standard categories for transparent, comparable budgets across assignments. Budgets feed the consultancy procurement process (advertisement PR and consultancy-fee PR) and the competitive bid analysis.