The project has established the training centre for training locals in establishing community based protection system for conserving forests. The project was a good learning experience in the respect that it did not involve the local actors at the proposal development phase as a result of which very few people are familiar with the project in Khura. Though the project was successful in establishing a centre there are no local clients who could pay for receiving training and as a result the services of the people who were trained are not being fully utilised. The assumption for developing this project was that it would train beneficiaries of other projects in community based forest protection. Since there was only one other project, which was initiated to protect forest, thus the use of the training centre was not as anticipated. Due to this assumption that other projects will have training budget so no training budget was provided in this project for training of community forest guards.

KWS had initially proposed to establish a conservation fund which was not approved by the GEF/SGP NSC due to the limitations of UNDP to provide for such funds through small grants programmes. NSC recommended that instead of establishing conservation fund these funds should be used to pay for project related activities. The project decided to use those funds for acknowledging the services of the forest conservation committee and started paying honorarium to the group of elders who had formed the forest protection council but during the previous monitoring visit it was found that the residents of Khura village did not know of the honorarium being paid to the group of elders. So it was recommended to revise the budget and half of the funds allocated for honorarium should be spent on activities that can benefit other residents of the village to which they agreed and those resources were utilized by the CBO to construct 10 water ponds in the forest.

The project has been able to mobilize the forest department that has now demarcated the project boundaries after surveying the area. This will help in eliminating the local conflicts with the residents of surrounding villages who used to claim some of the forest area of Khura as theirs. With this the protection of forest will improve and possible conflicts avoided. This was highlighted as the top most priority by the community, which shows the commitment of the community to protect their forest.

The community based system of watch and ward and fining the culprits from the community has been modified as result of pointing out during the previous monitoring visit that they need to get an approval from the forest department to fine people for cutting wood in state forest since state forest is the property of the government. As a result in consultation with the forest department they have changed the system of fining people. Now they forward the cases of theft in the state forest to the forest department for fining and in case of theft or wood cutting having taken place in the shamlots they fine the individuals themselves and use those funds on the agreeable community needs.