Development of ‘Nepal Labour Migration Report 2026’

The objective of this assignment is to provide technical support to the working committee of the Ministry of Youth, Labour and Employment (MoYLE) and the ILO Country Office for Nepal in preparing the Nepal Labour Migration Report 2026 in English and Nepali. The report will provide a comprehensive overview of labour migration from Nepal with a focus on the fiscal years 2024/25 and 2025/26 (2081/82 and 2082/83). It will cover: i) updated information, primarily based on the analysis of MoYLE data, on the major trends of labour migration from Nepal, including new and renewed labour approvals, labour demand attested versus approvals issued, caste, sex and age composition, provinces and districts of origin, established and emerging countries of destination, modes of obtaining approval, skills and occupational profiles, returnees, stock estimates of Nepali migrants abroad, foreign migrant workers in Nepal, and a comparison with other South Asian origin countries; ii) an updated overview of Nepal’s labour migration governance regime, the institutional architecture at federal, provincial and local levels, private actors, digital governance, the welfare architecture, bilateral, regional and international engagement, and trafficking, smuggling and irregular migration; iii) thematic analysis of recruitment and costs, health, safety and deaths, access to justice, remittances, return and reintegration, skilling, gender, migrant families, the Nepal-India corridor, climate and disasters, and technology and AI.