3. Most (23.3%) of the respondents felt that better qualified and well-trained teachers in schools would improve the quality of education (23.3%) and 16.7% of the people thought improved education in higher grades of the outer islands would positively and generally affect education. 4. Majority (63.6%) of the people were dissatisfied with overall health services and especially those from outer islands (62.3%). 5. 64.4% of the respondents expressed dissatisfaction with the quality of hospitals. 6. The overall dissatisfaction exhibited over the three components of health are congruous with the 2011 findings highlighting that people do not perceive health services have improved. 7. A third of respondents (31.4%) believed improving services at the hospitals would enhance access to health in general. 8. Majority of the respondents were dissatisfied with the available employment and work opportunities (43.1%). 9. Close to half of the respondents (45.2%) expressed concern over the limited access to markets for conducting economic activities. 10. The number of respondents dissatisfied with the judiciary accounted for at 56.3% of the respondents. 11. Most commonly cited reason for the loss of judicial confidence pertained to corruption (39.2%). 12. A positive change can be observed towards the performance of security services including the police, with an increase in respondents expressing satisfaction with police work (43.5%). 13. The most commonly cited reasons for dissatisfaction with police services were corruption (25.1%) and their unavailability when in demand (19.4%). 14. A general dissatisfaction with the performance of prisons services (24.8% was reported). Women expressed this more than men, and the reasons cited were corruption (10.7%), lack of supervision (5.2%), abuse (4.2%) and torture (2.5%) of prisoners. 15. Generally, people agreed that social services have not been expanded to facilitate better outreach over the years and thus have remained at the same level. 16. Close to half (46%) of the respondents were convinced that the government was taking adequate measures to improve housing services. 17. Most respondents believed that the government should prioritize health services’ improvement and ensure the provision of social housing as well as financial assistance. 18. Majority of people stated that they were dissatisfied with the access to official information. 19. Over a third of the respondents (36.1%) reported that the enactment of the Rights to Information Act (2014) has been helpful. 12

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