WRITTEN WORK

PROPOSED HERETHERE RESORT: SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT (Seamarc, 2006): This assessment involved carrying out a series of focus group discussions on all the inhabited islands of Addu Atoll with influential groups such as the Island Development Committees and the Women's Development Committees, as well as more disadvantaged sections of the population.

A REVIEW OF 2004 RADIO AND TV DRAMA SERIES AND PSAS (UNFPA, 2005): This is a review of the UNFPA-funded 2004 broadcast media advocating gender equality and male participation. It examines factors of production, critically analyses the media and considers audience feedback to provide recommendations for future productions in the light of the findings. A key finding is:

"While the 2004 TV and radio drama series and PSAs challenge dominant gender differences and roles that run in society to some degree, they may, in other ways, be reinforcing the very attitudes, beliefs and stereotypical media images they set out to counter."

SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF THE PROPOSED YATCH MARINA AND SPA (Seamarc, 2003): This study involved carrying out a series of focus and natural group discussions on more than five inhabited islands in North Maldives. Club Hulhevi's experience in outer islands and interviewing resulted in high-quality information gathering.