The project will improve the living environment of the inhabitants of focus islands in NDR and in the SDR. The project includes construction of permanent regional development and management offices (RDMOS) in both Kulhudhuffushi and Hithadhoo, training local staff, upgrading of a 10.5 km road from Gan to Hithadhoo, upgrading of streets in urban areas of the focus islands, provision of rain water collection and storage for 2000 individual households in both the NDR and SDR,

provision of appropriate technology solutions to sanitation for 1000, individual households in the NDR, construction of a 70-metre (m) bridge and 200 m culverted causeway in SDR (for environmental reasons); provision of solid waste disposal, septic tank desludging, and the setting up of permanent environmental monitoring of the freshwater lens, coastal geomorphology, and marine ecology of the focus islands.