"It's going to duplicate resources," said Dr. Kurtzberg of Duke, who has worked closely with Dr. Rubinstein but favors a more coordinated approach.
The answer, city leaders decided, was to keep many programs in place but modify them to fit a shrinking budget, deploy police officers more strategically, consolidate the efforts of government and nonprofit agencies under a single organizational structure so as not to duplicate resources and shift more responsibility onto the shoulders of community residents.
"The intention of the program is not to duplicate resources," Bess said.
Many post-disaster evaluations discuss efforts duplicated and resources wasted because of the sheer number of different organizations and the chaotic conditions inherent to quick-response international relief work.
Without it, we duplicate resources, waste time and confuse patients with overlapping programs.
Australia wallows in "big" government, with three administrative tiers wastefully duplicating resources.
This will help to streamline and speed up the process of re-letting, and reduce the cost of duplicating resources and time.
It would take several years to build, cost about €10m and duplicate resources in the highly efficient, automated Omagh dairy, so it would be a last resort.
Some companies, such as Twitter, have said they would need to build new data centres in Europe to handle information, needlessly duplicating resources they already have in the US.
Voluntourism can reinforce paternalism, expecting hosting communities to be passive and grateful "recipients". Volunteers' efforts often shirk pressing issues like infrastructure and resource shortages, or unknowingly duplicate existing resources.
