Relevant issues which apply to the agreed intentions of the programme are discussed with the project leaders, and a short version is presented to the multidisciplinary team.
I was told that our tuberculosis (TB) programme had improved since I allocated two professional nurses with the intention of making the programme a success.
Despite the intention of the HII programme to improve privacy, this was not apparently achieved.
The proportion at the health centre is higher than expected and does not conform to the original intention of the village midwife programme.
Education officials would be quite capable of indicating the intentions of the education programme in relation to performance in jobs that are part of the occupational field.
The problem is that regardless of best intentions, if the programme is widely perceived as being discriminatory then it inevitably runs the risk of failure.
But there are also dangers with an exercise – if this was the intention – of making a programme to present to the public a shocking story of professional and organisational failures and unacceptable behaviour.
The intention is for the implementation of the programme to continue in Mauritius for a further 2 years, at which time the long-term success and ramifications of the implementation will be evaluated.
