Local decision-makers – such as government officials and donor staff – will need to use results data, collected at local level, to allocate resources.
In one study [ 41], randomisation was done at clinic level, to allocate clinics to the intervention group and to the control group, implying that most probably there was no allocation concealment.
Roadmapping is a method able to integrate different planning levels and to allocate options within these levels, using the metaphor of guidance through the complexity of a geographic landscape.
A qualitative study was undertaken and in-depth interviews of decision makers at provincial and federal levels responsible to allocate resources within the program were conducted.
The household-level decision to allocate milk to markets, home consumption, or suckling animals has been a topic of prior research.
A second stage of the resource allocation process is a decision on the level of resource to allocate for the measured needs of each area and population sub-group.
We used the World Bank Classification based on Gross National Income level (Atlas method) to allocate countries to different income groups (low-, low middle-, upper middle- and high- income).
A blocked stratified randomization procedure, based on functional level, was used to allocate participants to either the intervention group, (enhanced physical activity), or a control group (usual care) following baseline assessment.
The choice of the specific level at which to allocate a certain competence, regardless of its actual rationale, has implications for the relation between the agency's territorial jurisdiction and the scale of the activities that the specific competence foresees.
We chose to allocate levels of population mixing, deprivation and population density based on matching cases to the 1991 census.
