About Galli Galli

Galli Galli was established in 2013 based in Gyaneshwor, Kathmandu to understand, intervene in, and improve the relationship between citizens and the state/bureaucracy.

At first we started to work on governance and public service delivery. Galli Galli started a crowdsourced wikimedia service called “Nalibeli” which documented major public service deliveries in simple format to make it available in public domain. The Wiki page consist name of the service, process, required documents, fees, and experiences of past users. The Wiki pages were visited more than 125000 times on average per week. Since the government themselves started in believes that any successful state-citizen relationship must be founded on practices of dialogue and participatory decision- making through evidence-based service delivery, policy and action.

With the help from Pratham Education (India) and ASER Centre, Galli Galli initiated citizen led assessment in Nepal. Between 2016 and 2020, Galli Galli's ASER Nepal initiative conducted foundational literacy and numeracy assessments for children aged 5–16 across 1,282 communities. Engaging nearly 6,000 youth volunteers, the initiative surveyed approximately 125,000 children nationwide. ASER Nepal also become the member of PAL Network. This citizen-led effort is part of the PAL Network, encompassing 14 countries committed to improving children's learning outcomes through grassroots assessments. In 2016,we started with 60 villages of Parsa district as district level pilot to Budanilkantha Municipality level assessment in 2017/18 (adapted to new government structure). And then all 136 municipalities of Madhesh Province ASER (reaching to all 1271 wards inside Madhesh Province) in 2019.

ASER Nepal worked on alternative leaning modules during the COVID-19 school closure time along with other stakeholders in Nepal. ASER Nepal also become member of Global Partnership for Education (GPE) funded Education Out Loud project on South Asia Assessessment Alliance. As part of the project, Galli Galli worked and partnered several sub-national, national and regional organizations to form assessment alliances at the level of South Asia, National and Subnational of Nepal. Galli Galli also condcuted post-covid International Common Assessment of Numeracy (ICAN) along with other PAL Network South Asia hub members in 2022. Galli Galli started “My Village: A Learning Village”, citizen led action program in 119 villages of Nepal.

ASER Nepal conducted pre-pilot assessment in Kavrepalanchowk district, pilot assessment in Surkhet district, and full scale ASER assessments in 5 districts of Karnali Province. We hosted regional and local government level ASER report release and sharing events in 2023. Galli Galli continued “My Village: A Learning Village”, citizen led action program in 119 villages of Nepal in 2023, and conducted a limited pilot to 15 villages of Salahi district in 2024. We also started preparing for International Common Assessment of Numeracy and Literacy (ICAN & ICARe). Galli Galli collaborated with National Statistics Office (NSO) to get research survey approval for ICAN & ICARe in Nepal for 2025.

Galli Galli has conducted International Common Assessment of Numeracy and Literacy (ICAN & ICARe) with the support from PAL Network in 2025 along with other PAL Network member countries. This is first ever household based foundational learning assessment in Nepal specific to Sustainable Development Goals 4.1.1a. Based on the national level data, Galli Galli is conducting series of advocacy events at the national, regional and sub-national level to discuss widely on the “learning poverty” and the way forward to ensure foundational learning of all school-aged children in Nepal. Galli Galli is also making the “My Village: A learning village” action program well structured and robust to recover the learning gap identified through learning assessment tools. Beside citizen-led assessments on foundational literacy, Galli Galli designed and worked on “culture of peace and empathy in schools” programs to contribute conducive learning environment. Galli Galli has partnered with several other organizations to introduce ways of handling bullies, prejudice and violence in schools.