Comparing to traditional procurement, one of the major risks of public infrastructure, the unavailability risk, is borne by private firms instead of public users under PPPs.
Seven different factors could be identified in the scarcity debate: geological scarcity, technical difficulties in extracting the metals, the lack of substitutes, price variations, limited transport infrastructure, domestic unavailability and legal regulations.
Inadequacy of facility infrastructure and unavailability of resources reported in this study played a key role in affecting health workers' performance.
Poor hospital infrastructure and resource unavailability have also been found to be important demotivators in other studies [ 4, 33, 47].
Among the risks associated with cloud computing are unauthorized access (or reuses for which consent has not been obtained from researchers, patients or participants), data corruption, infrastructure failure or unavailability.
One of the major drawbacks in rail track investments is the high level of uncertainty in maintenance, renewal and unavailability costs for the Infrastructure Managers (IM) during the life-cycle of the infrastructure.
During interviews, staff also mentioned issues with management of infrastructure such as power shortages and unavailability of power back up in delivery rooms.
Finally, factors relating to the availability and accessibility of primary health infrastructure were not considered due to the unavailability of data.
The baseline assessment identified many HR problems – among them, low salaries, unavailability of jobs, lack of infrastructure, and low levels of education – and enabled the leadership group to identify priorities.
The outbreak, which was fueled by the fragmented infrastructure of Zimbabwe's health care system and by the unavailability of food and of clean drinking water, started in August 2008 in a district located south of the country's capital city, Harare.
One of the main problems in urban and environmental management concerns the unavailability of reliable spatial data in a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) environment.
