Costing

This page provides links to documents pertaining to HRP costing.

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Menu of objectives, activities and indicators - HPC 2026	The menu of common objectives, activities, and indicators is the key reference document that provides country teams with a standardized, inter‑agency‑reviewed set of options to help quickly select humanitarian activities and indicators. Activities link to standardized Strategic and Cluster Objectives to anchor costing in the HNRP’s logical framework to supports integrated needs, planning, monitoring, and financial tracking within the new Country Module. The menu of activities includes inputs from the Global Cluster Coordination Group, the Global Cash Coordination Group and key implementing partners, reflecting cluster-specific frameworks where they exist and highlighting key activities. The menu was prepared by analysing over 7,000 data points on the objectives, activities and indicators of 10 offices that provided activity costing data for 2025 as well as their activities and indicators as registered in the Results Planning and Monitoring (RPM) tool between 2022 and 2025. Activities and indicators were cross-checked against the inter-agency approved Humanitarian Indicators Registry and country-specific logical frames available on humanitarianaction.info.	Excel EN, FR
Costing 2026 : How-to Guide	This guidance explains the activity‑based costing approach for the HPC 2026, detailing how standardized unit costs for activities should be calculated and linked to logframes to produce financial requirements. It also explains how the Country Module will integrate needs, planning, costing, monitoring and financial tracking in a single system.	PDF EN, FR
Cluster Costing Guidance Coordination, Thematics and System Support Enabling Services Education	These documents provide cluster‑specific costing guidance (as it becomes available from the clusters) as well as guidance on the content of the HNRP chapter on Coordination, Thematics and System Support (previously called Coordination and Common Services).	PDF EN, FR EN, FR EN, FR, ES
HPC.tools Country Module: Excel tool for logframe and costing	The Country Module Excel tool must be used by Country Offices to prepare logframes and costing offline, while the new online HPC.tools Country Module (replacing RPM, the Project Module, and integrating the global 3W) is being finalized. Data entered in this file will be uploaded directly into the Country Module once it goes live, for the HPC 2026.	Excel EN, FR, ES
HPC.tools Country Module: Excel tool step-by-step guide	This PowerPoint Presentation explains how to fill in the Country Module Excel tool.	PowerPoint EN
HPC.tools Country Module: Cluster Caseload and Costing tool	This tool must be used by Country Offices to record their cluster and plan level caseloads and severity, both disaggregated per location, as well as overall requirements.	Excel EN
Background Costing Resources		Link to Costing page

Background documents

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HRP costing methodology – consultancy report	Report EN AR
HRP costing methodology options	Methodology EN
HRP costing approaches – three methodological case studies · Case Study 1: PBC + Project Registration and Vetting based on the steps used to generate South Sudan, Syria, and Nigeria’s HRPs financial requirements (see Annexes) · Case Study 2: UBC + Project Registration for Coordination, Planning, and Monitoring (Hybrid) based the steps used to generate Sudan’s HRP financial requirements (see Annexes) · Case Study 3: UBC Using ActivityInfo based on the steps used to generate Iraq’s HRP financial requirements (see Annexes)	Case study EN AR ES
Costing Methodology – A Roadmap	Roadmap EN
Costing staff position – ToR	ToR EN
Summary of OCHA Perspectives on Costing, Project Registration and Monitoring and the Linkages between them (OCHA internal document)	Summary EN