Budget justification

This is a budget that has been designed to cater for every expense in the course of the overdose prevention intervention. The estimates are considerably within the range of realism considering how the previous intervention budgets the research team had incurred. Justification of every expense has been made as follows.

Personnel expenses: the project coordinator is an expert international leader in fighting drug and substance abuse and hence his high rank is worth the $70, 000 throughout the intervention. The other researchers have been assigned salaries based on the magnitude of duty they hold, the level of education and the agreements that were made during the preparation period. Office supply shall spend $3, 200 which is a considerable amount considering the duration and time that writing and printing shall be used.

Equipment: Since the department does not have all the necessary equipment, 4 laptops, a van and the other included equipment shall be hired. Their prices were confirmed to be as they are in the budget.

Incentives/Promotions: After a lengthy discussion with the project committee members, it was found that online advertising would not pass the information efficiently as we would desire. In this regard, pamphlets, posters and other printouts had to cost $16, 100 for full awareness and reward to the participants. In addition, postage envelops and survey copies were found useful in the intervention.

Transport expenses: We also had to hire a park pavilion which would be large enough to accommodate the expected large number of participants.

 

Purchasing services: The purchase services were estimated to equal the previous intervention project which amounted to $1, 450.

 

 

 

Project sustainability plan

Mission

The project team is looking forward to have a discussion with community members and staff on the need to embrace the overdose prevention methods that will be proven effective during the intervention.

Goals

The team will also develop logic and specific model of sustainable goals towards overdose prevention.

Relation and involvement of key stakeholders

 The team members will closely work with the leadership schools and faith communities in order to uphold the banner of ‘no to overdose’. For the purpose of building the relations with the leaders and teachers, regular meetings shall be conducted with them and the community members.

Awareness

Written materials shall also be distributed to participants for them to understand the vision and mission of the project team.

Project funding

Finance sustainability of the project on future interventions is dependent on personal contributions, support from government health agencies, fundraisers and sponsors. In addition financial strategies shall be developed by the advisory and staff committee to ensure that clarity and transparency of funds is made sustainable.

Being good stewards

Lastly, the sustainability plan calls all the members of the project to be good stewards of time and resources. Celebrations of the continued efforts will be made after every bit of the project shall have come into completion.