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This new computer-based tool allows users to set up and run multiple scenarios to look at the estimated impact of different intervention packages and coverage levels for their countries, states or districts. These scenarios, developed with the LiST tool, provide a structured format for program managers or ministry of health personnel to combine the best scientific information about effectiveness of interventions for maternal, neonatal and child health with information about cause of death and current coverage of interventions to inform their planning and decision-making, to help prioritize investments and evaluate existing programs. The LiST tool is meant to be used as part of the planning process—not as a replacement for planning.

Developed by consortium of academic and international organizations, led by Institute of International Programs at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School, and supported by a Gates Foundation grant to the US Fund for UNICEF.

1. Base Data: User enters basic background and program information such as populations, currency exchange rates, per diem levels, mass drug administration (MDA) target populations, and unit cost information.


2. Activity Costs: User enters costs estimates of your program activities (for example, personnel, transport, and supplies) organized around cost categories, activities, sub-activities, and cost classifications.


3. Drug Acquisition: User enters and tracks information on drug purchases, donations, and gaps for the first year of your program, including specific individual drug multipliers and prices


4. Funders: User enters all program funders and funds in this module, including government funding, partners, bilateral donors, and nongovernmental organizations, which may be assigned to specific activities, sub-activities, and/or districts to match the funder's intent.


5. Outputs: Here, user may view and analyze all of the data that has been entered into the NTD-FGAT, in formatted tables and charts. All cost entries can be reviewed, edited, and sorted from a detailed summary worksheet, and the data from this module can be exported into presentations or documents, or copied into other Excel worksheets for additional analysis. There are eleven additional outputs within this module that display key summarized information, such as program costs, program funding, funding gaps, funding sources, drug needs, five-year cost and drug forecasts, MDA target populations, and salaries.