Observed arrival · 2026-11-14
What Does It Cost checks aid budgets against local prices
A budget-checking tool for aid and development work that compares uploaded spreadsheet, CSV, PDF, or photographed line items with stated local price benchmarks.
- For
- Aid and development budget reviewers
- Worth noticing
- Its sample flags a pickup-truck line about 441% above the usual range and distinguishes basic, mid-market, and luxury pricing.
Field notes
The workflow accepts Excel, CSV, PDF, or a photo, then asks where the work happens or attempts to read the location from the file. It says each line is mapped to one of 96 common items and benchmarked against advertised local prices, UN salary scales, or WFP market prices, with benchmark counts shown. The displayed Abuja example is explicitly a made-up test budget, and the page says uploads are deleted when the check ends, with the report deleted within 60 minutes.
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