Recruitment, administrative and training costs
RECRUITMENT
Four interviewers interviewed 18 candidates to serve as lay providers, each lasting 30 minutes, of which 12 were hired. The training lasted 10 hours across two days. Training costs included lay provider and trainer time spent in training, as well as traveling to and from training. A Kenyan-based site coordinator also spent approximately five hours per week, for four weeks, per school (80 hours total) coordinating intervention delivery. Since this coordinator had the same education level as the lay counselors, we assumed he was paid the same hourly rate. We are reporting implementation costs (recruitment, administrative, and training) and delivery costs separately. It is important to report implementation costs because they can help administrators decide whether they have the capacity to implement a new intervention. Adding such costs to delivery costs can inflate cost-outcome metrics since organizations differ in their existing resources and needs and, thus, will incur different implementation costs for the same intervention [Description of recruitment, administration and training costs per student