Numerous studies (Koirala et al., 2019; Shrestha, 2022) carried out in Nepal with regards to education suggest that there has to be some systemic intervention to uplift the educational standard of Nepal. Nepal Educational Development Trust is trying to intervene in the educational system so as to optimise education in Nepal. Primarily, it:

- awards the best teaching learning ideas or projects that school teachers have used in Nepal which can be replicated by other teachers; and

- compiles the quality learning resources that teachers have submitted for the award and makes it publicly available by creating an Educational Resources Repository (ERR)

The rationale for creating ERR:

By creating ERR, which comprises the 10 best educational projects shared by teachers of Nepal to NEDT annually, the repository will have 50 innovative ideas within 5 years. Therefore, in the long run, as the project ideas available in this repository are expected to be used by other teachers in Nepal, this action can gradually help teachers bring a change in their teaching and learning. Currently, in Nepal, educational stakeholders often talk about project-based learning without factoring in its practicalities; however, the reality is that neither the government or any other stakeholders have honoured and publicized the local teachers’ efforts and impactful projects carried out in their classrooms. Their best teaching and learning ideas and projects have remained within themselves as they have not been made public. Thus, NEDT would like to value these local teachers’ expertise, and make their ideas public so that those ideas will be adopted or adapted by other teachers to bring newness to their teaching and learning.