The project improved Community Centers by upgrading facilities and creating a better learning environment. It continued catch-up classes for marginalized children while updating student records. It also strengthened teacher capacity and increased community awareness on the importance of education.

Asian Regional Conference on Effective Local Governance: Accountability, Participation and Inclusion is conceptualised as a multi-stakeholder platform of civil society organisations, academicians, government and donor agencies which engages in critical reflection on strengthening local governance in the region.

The project helped the IGD and its partners gain new alliance, partnerships and collaborative strategies in the quest for enlarging civic spaces and choices especially at the subnational level, activities secured the role and contribution of former Chief Election Commissioner - Chair of Democracy Election Nepal which is one of the consortium members of the project.

The conference is expected to catalyse a regional coalition of practitioners of local governance, citizen participation and democratic accountability. It is envisaged that such coalition through exchanges of practice based knowledge would strengthen in-country local actions and inform the policy processes on an on-going basis.