Past experience also suggests that simply discontinuing or restricting the range of services to be provided within a programme does not guarantee that resources will be available for redeployment to new investments.
Illustrative among those that do, the HRH plan for Lesotho includes explicit reference to strategic redeployment of specialist nurses to maternity and obstetric services at the hospital level based on the volume of maternity care demanded (drawing on a workload and task analysis), as well as health system requirements for medical specialists in obstetrics and gynaecology [ 29].
Where the programme budget spans a wide range of health services, delivered in different settings and serving different patient populations, direct redeployment of resources may be difficult to achieve and the breadth of the programme budget may itself prove a barrier to disinvestment.
Recall, however, direct redeployment of released resources might be difficult to achieve when areas of service contraction demand a different level, mix and quality of inputs than do areas of service expansion.
There will be a gross loss of 84,000 posts in the civil service; and a net one after redeployment of 71,000, more than reversing its expansion in the past few years.
Across the Continent, the sale and redeployment of lucrative television broadcast frequencies for high-speed mobile Internet service — the so-called digital dividend — has so far done little to increase competition, instead reinforcing the position of existing market leaders.
Some complain that the time-scale is unrealistic, and that even with the proposed redeployment of resources there is simply not enough suitable manpower in many poor countries to provide the necessary services.
A statement issued by a spokesman for the secret service, Edwin Donovan, declined to comment on the specifics of the allegations but confirmed a redeployment of staff.
The action came two days after the county executive, Edward P. Mangano, sent the control board a revised spending plan that included 200 layoffs, 13-day furloughs for all workers, the redeployment of 142 police officers (and the closing of a police precinct) and $5.5 million in cuts to contracted social-service agencies.
It's just a redeployment of those employment opportunities.
