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Table 2

Setting up and running costs of the ARKFor pilot project from 2010 to 2011.

Cost centers	NGO main office; (AWF-Arusha)	NGO local office (AWF-Kondoa)	Partner	Consultancy	Monitoring body	Verifications	Villages and villagers	Total; (US$)
Setting up costs
Negotiating contracts, planning, decision making, administration, and finances	150,107	—	192,132	—	—	—	—	342,239
Developing institutions	1,625	2383	125	—	—			4,133
Information programs and payment programs/communication	4908	—	4146					9,054
MRV systems	48,514	—	3451	—	—			51,965
Personnel cost	12,290	42,255	—	—	66	—	—	54,611
Office costs	—	20,832	—	—	—	—	—	20,832
Capital assets	—	74,511	—	—	—	—	—	74,511
Running costs
Negotiating contracts, planning, decision making, administration, and finances	110,225	—	—	64,638	—	—	—	174,863
Developing institutions	223,313	—	$2314	53,885	—	—	46,274	325,786
Information programs and payment programs/communication	788	—	—	38,582	—	—	—	39,370
MRV systems	185	—	—	11,201	—	—	—	11,386
Personnel cost	26,388	58,183	—	—	5310	—	—	89,881
Office costs, include consumables, travelling costs and miscellaneous	27,986	2500	3600	3500	—	—	14,770	52,356
Capital assets	—	1426	—	—	—	—	—	1,426
Total								1,252,413

Source: ARKFor pilot project annual report from 2010 to 2011.