The phrase "an effort to minimize" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing attempts to reduce something, such as risks, costs, or negative impacts.
Example: "The company implemented new policies as an effort to minimize waste and improve sustainability."
Alternatives: "a attempt to reduce" or "an initiative to lessen".
So there is generally an effort to minimize the effect.
Typically firms like UBS, in an effort to minimize risk, hedge these types of transactions.
Research has also focused on multistage liquefaction in an effort to minimize hydrogen consumption and maximize overall process yields.
In an effort to minimize the disruption, Gov. David A. Paterson late Tuesday called a special election for March 16.
Companies of all sizes, as well as wealthy individuals, have embraced the use of partnerships and other opaque entities in an effort to minimize taxes, the officials said.
The officers were transferred from surrounding precincts and were allowed to retain their ranks and salary, he said, in an effort to minimize disruption to their lives.
That means looking at everything from land-use management and development permits to forest management in an effort to minimize the impacts of wildfires in the future.
And they applied remedies like busing and magnet school plans in an effort to minimize de facto segregation, which arose largely from segregated housing patterns.
Apparently in an effort to minimize the provocation of Beijing, the Vatican did not include any Catholics killed under Communist rule in its new list of prospective saints.
In an effort to minimize casualties, the Army Corps relocated threatened corals to an artificial mitigation reef, built two miles offshore of Miami Beach.
The City Charter forbids candidates to use the names of established political parties in special elections, in an effort to minimize the influence of the parties.
