The project successfully conserved both the natural fens- Shirsha Thakur and Jhaurababa. The project mobilized indigenous Tharus to first demarcate the wetlands. Once demarcated, the wetlands were cleaned, built bioengineering structure around the boundary (500m in Shirsha Thakur and 250m in Jharababa water holes). These structure consists of earthen dykes filled with Jute sacks, sand, mud etc and planted grasses and bamboo to strengthen the boundary. In order to manage the water, cemented check dams with outlets were also constructed in the both the wetlands. By managing the water in wetland, they were able to irrigate 400 ha of land.

The project formed 8 wetland management groups comprising 166 members which included 112 women and 54 men members. Two wetland management committees each were also formed to manage the wetlands. In the committees, there were 25 members with 14 women members. The project then federated the committees to a Network with 25 members. All the group members were indigenous Tharus.

Once the community management system was in place, the project helped to initiate different livelihood initiatives such as fish farming, duck farming, ecotourism, organic farming, agroforestry in both public and private land. In no time, they started to chip out benefits from these economic activities.

In agroforestry, farmers planted 19,000 forest and fruit tree in 12 ha land and in between these trees, vegetable farming was initiated. They produced more than 1 tonnes of vegetables earning USD300. Likewise, farmers also earned, for the first time, USD 600 from organic vegetable farming.

A duck house was also constructed and 138 duckling were provided to kick start the duck farming. Fingerlings were also provided to initiate fish farming and earned US200 by selling the fish.

In order to promote ecotourism, the project supported to construct a picnic shed, few cement chairs and locals had started to enjoy the wetlands with these facilities.