The evaluation found that while some donor funds reach communities, CBOs also rely heavily on volunteers and maximizing scarce resources to achieve impact.
Architects will be charged with managing this growth and finding innovative ways to maximize scarce space and resources.
A national ECD policy can help maximize scarce financial, human, and material resources in order to reduce duplication of effort (Neuman, 2007).
Instead, the value per QALY arises from a judgement made by government or some quasi-government agency who aim to maximize health from scarce resources [16].
Given the economic objective of maximizing benefits given scarce resources, the optimal decision was defined as the catheter associated with the highest average monetary net benefit; choosing anything else would incur an opportunity cost.
To this end, the WISN results have the potential to be useful as an objective tool to facilitate accurate staffing levels, maximize efficient use of scarce resources and promote improved service coverage across district health systems.
In a weakened health system, it is even more crucial to ensure a high quality of care and patient satisfaction, to maximize the benefits of the scarce resources.
While OR techniques and models have been successfully utilized in many areas to maximize the effective use of scarce resources, the application of mathematical modeling to HIV scale-up to date typically has focused on policy-level issues (e.g., program costs) as opposed to operational-level issues [ 7- 10].
Under these circumstances, there is an increasing need for using therapeutic options which are not only clinically effective but also economically efficient, in order to maximize the value for money attained from the scarce resources invested in health care.
This was necessary to ensure timely external assistance, minimize duplication of scarce resources, provide a transparent process, and maximize effectiveness of health personnel.
