iHRIS Retain is designed to allow you to compare costs of various intervention packages that may be under consideration, so you can make better informed decisions. After entering information about the interventions that you are considering, you will create packages of interventions for various cadres of workers. You may then use iHRIS Retain to compare the total costs and expected effects of different packages or different combinations of interventions.

If you are conducting this costing work along with a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) analysis of health worker preferences, the simplest approach is to create packages based on your DCE results and health worker preferences. Even if you have not conducted a DCE analysis, comparing costs and anticipated effects of different packages of interventions is important to good decision making. However, your data on expected health worker preferences may be based on less rigorous estimates.