Community Co-Investment Project

Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique have deep rooted tradition of "maroon" living which is the communal pooling of labor for the purposes of farming and community development. 

PIA encourages community to recognize and evaluate their contribution towards their development in an effort to demonstrate greater ownership of their efforts to stewarding their community. 

 We believe that in giving recognition and valuing community's time, talent and resources to the development of their community, there is not just a more permanent sense of buy-in but this also builds community's sense of confidence to be self-motivated, to independently take on further initiatives of sustaining and enhancing of their community's assets. 

Ways of Calculating In-kind Contributions

Adapted from GEF SGP’s Resource Mobilisation Toolkit

Manpower Costs (labor, professionals, experts, etc)Use person-day market rates in the country or district at the relevant level of input, calculated per day or month. (e.g. Number of days x Market value per day.)

Use of Office Equipment

Calculate straight-line depreciation of full cost of equipment over 5 years and factor down according to usage on the project. e.g., A $5,000 piece of equipment over 5 years = $1,000 per year or $500 for six months or part thereof.

Use of Software 

• • • Use either:

    • Cost of software license for period of use, if available

    • Cost depreciated over 3 years.

Use or provision of materials or components where cost is nonrecoverable (i.e. product will not be resold)  

Use market price of materials/ components as supplied.

Use or provision of data/licence/patent to NGO/CBO        

Where data is pre-existing, but not in the public domain, use one of the following:

• Time/person power costs required to produce the data.

• Equivalent commercial cost of purchasing data.

• Treat data as ‘on-loan’ to project and calculate straight–line depreciation value over 3 years.

Use of land                                                                                  

• If land is given or donated for project activities for the period that is sufficient to fully reach planned results and impact, the full price of the land plot may be shown, supported by official document or data proving the price (Land Registration Certificate; Department of Statistics or other official institutional document).

• If land is given or lent for the project activities only for project duration, use the official rent price per month multiplied by amount of months. Price calculation should be supported by official documents and/or rent agreement.

Use of Construction/buildings 

• If construction/buildings are given/donated to the project activities for the period that is sufficient to fully reach planned results and impact, and will remain as property of NGO afterwards, the full price of the building/s may be shown, supported by official document or data proving the price (Real Estate Register; Department of Statistics or other official institutions) or by the document signed by the owner/donator.

• If contribution/buildings are given or lent for the project activities only for time of project duration, use the official rent price per month multiplied by amount of months. Price calculation should be supported by official document and/or rent agreement.

Use of vehicles                                                                                                 

If vehicle is lent for the project needs, use one of the following:

• An average cost per month or day of the official rent price specific for that locality multiplied by days/months used.

• Amortization of the lent vehicle is calculated as follows:

  • Subtract the fuel cost per Km from the UN Official rate used for private travel in that country per Km.

  • Multiply the number by approximate amount of KMs to be driven during the project.

  • If fuel is also shown as in-kind (not funded by SGP or other donors, and not receipts are present), use the full cost of the UN official rate for private travel per Km multiplied by the total distance driven during the project.

Volunteers Input                                                                                     

Voluntary input may be calculated on a daily or monthly basis, by filling in a “voluntary assistance sheet” (Annex 2). Use one of the following:

• Voluntary work input calculated based on the official rate of such work, if available.

• An average appropriate person-day rate used in the country or district at the relevant level of input.

• Official minimal level of salary per month (divide by 22, and multiply by number of days worked).