Significant changes which have occurred in peoples lives as a result of the Educa’s educational and organizacional work through the program of Municipalities and Indigenous Peoples:

• Greater participation by the common person in decision making at the level of local government
• Greater knowledge of political and human rights. Increased capability to articulate and insist that these rights be respected.
• Increased access to public resources through works of social benefit (potable water, electricity, roads, school, health clinics, etc.)
• Peaceful, non-violent conflict resolution carried out via dialogue.
• Specifically in the case of Santiago Ixtayutla, ass significant decline in electoral conflicts and institution of a system of legal and legitimately elected authorities.
• In the municipality of San Dionisio Ocotepec, the community achieved much greater appreciation of their own systems of indigenous governance.

We have also brought about changes at the level of political practice, ideas, beliefs and attitudes within institutions groups and at the individual level:

• After prolonged conflicts revolving around municipal power, residents of two municipalities Asuncion Tlacolulita and Santiago Ixtayutla the general citizenship assented to a peaceful changeover of elected authorities.
• Our program has contributed to general political stability by improving the internal function within the municipalities where we work. This has taken many years of steady work and has produced not only local governments which function more smoothly but has also produced a more creative and dynamic grassroots government system.
• Reorganization of formal community assemblies at the municipal level to break through rigid, closed and elitist forms of decision making replacing these with an open, transparent, participative local democracy. Santiago Ixtayutla provides the clearest example of this result.
• Increased innovation and vitality in the implementation of traditional indigenous political practices.
• Increased participation by women, youth, traditional indigenous authorities, and local village authorities in decision making.
• Increased political “weight” or presence by grassroots citizenship at all levels of decision making.

The establishment of a versatile network between various sectors constitutes another important achievement:

• Our projects have always aimed to connect different organization sectors, especially between municipal authorities and village authorities which did not occur before the establishment of the current local government system.
• Both the common citizens and officially elected municipal leaders gained direct access to electoral authorities.
• Municipal governments and local citizens increased their capacity for initiative and also of negotiations with federal and state authorities in the social demands.
• We have consolidated and increased efficiency in our training efforts especially from the perspective of the indigenous communities. The School of Municipal Leaders attests to this work. The School offers both spaces for training and networking as well as being itself a reflection of indigenous peoples.