Question pretext
Recurrent expenses are those which occur to produce the FP services in your organization E.g. the distribution of condoms, quarterly dissemination of FP information to employees and the resources involved to provide those services.
Interviewer instructions
You are requested to provide a breakdown of the amount of money that has actually been spent/disbursed by your organisation for this family planning project/programme, dividing the total amount in recurrent expenses and capital investment.
If a project/programme is not strictly for family planning but contains a family planning component, kindly estimate and include only the amount for family planning. For example, if a consultation includes information on nutrition and family planning you should estimate and only include the amount for FP
Expenses associated with administering a business on a day to day basis. Some operational costs are fixed, meaning that each cost is identical from month to month, such as rent. However, other operational costs are variable and may go up or down from month to month, such as utilities. Operational costs include electricity, rent of the building, equipment rental, accounting expenses, utilities (e.g. phone bills), office supplies (e.g. paper, notebooks, etc.), insurance fees, travel expenses or other expenses related to the operation of the organization implementing family planning project/programme.