Care Georeferencing Tool Costing Studio
Choose the package that fits your ambition and budget. Estimates are indicative and refined through a short scoping conversation.
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What makes up the investment. Bar lengths indicate relative cost weighting within each category.
What makes up the investment.
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The seven phases we guide you through.
The geographic area you want to map, a single city, a metro area, a whole province, or a nation. Larger areas cost more because there is more ground to map, more roads to model for accessibility, and more field logistics. Start with the area where the need is clearest; you can expand later.
The number of people living in the area to be mapped. Higher populations increase cost because there are more care services to locate and more care-dependent people whose needs must be mapped. It is the size of the population, not just the land area, that drives the demand-mapping work.
How easy the area is to map and move around. Flat, well-mapped cities are cheaper; mountainous or remote areas cost more because travel times are harder to model (a service a short distance away may be hours apart by road), roads are less complete in existing data, and more validation is needed. This is a major cost driver in places like Bhutan.
Whether your government already holds usable data on care services and population. This is the single biggest cost driver. If you have good facility registries and a recent census, much of the mapping is desk-based. If little exists, the work shifts to primary collection, field surveys and ground-truthing, which is labour-intensive. Good existing data can substantially lower the cost.
Which care needs you want the map to cover, childcare, elder care, disability support, or several. Each additional care type adds cost, because it means mapping a different set of services and a different population group, each with its own data sources. Many governments start with one priority group and add others over time.
The package sets how deep the analysis goes, how much is packaged for you, and how much ongoing support you receive.
Foundational gives you the core care map and the gaps it reveals. Standard adds the climate-risk layer, a public-facing citizen map, and a year of support. Comprehensive adds scenario modelling, planning dashboards and an ongoing partnership.
You can start small and step up later. explains each package in full.
The one-time cost to build and launch your care map: scoping, mapping supply, demand and accessibility, producing the maps, and training your team. Shown as a range because the exact figure depends on details confirmed during scoping. This is open-source software, so you are paying for the work and expertise, not licences.
The breakdown below shows what makes up this figure, including the national consultant time and the regional technical support that the work requires.
Country personnel is national consultant time. This is usually the largest single component, because most of the work, locating services, gathering data, coordinating with agencies and validating results, happens in country.
Regional technical backstopping is the specialist support provided by the UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub: methodological adaptation, the demand and accessibility analysis, configuration and deployment of the platform, technical guidance, training and quality assurance. It is costed from the number of specialist days each phase requires, rather than set as a flat fee, which is why it changes with the complexity of your context and the package you choose.
The remaining lines cover data acquisition, platform set-up, and the in-country missions needed to scope and validate the work.
The yearly cost of keeping the system live, accurate and supported: hosting, refreshing the data so the map stays current, maintenance, and technical support. This is the number that determines whether the tool is sustainable for your government over time, so it is worth planning for from the start, not just the set-up cost. Over five years it can match the set-up investment.
Every CGT implementation follows the same seven-phase methodology, from agreeing the scope, through mapping care supply, demand and accessibility, to validating the results with your teams and handing over the tool. This structure is what makes the results rigorous and comparable across cities and countries. describes each phase.