Migration Opportunities and Challenges
The purpose of the study was to broaden knowledge on the experience of labour migration for Nepali women. The study examined various factors surrounding i) the decision to migrate for labour, ii) the decision to return to Nepal, and 3) the process of reintegrating into the Nepali labo…
Socio-Political Costs and Effects of the Remittance Economy
Remittances represent a significant, albeit still relatively recent, the flow of resources that accrues to communities in a decentralised manner and their complex distributive effects remain little understood beyond the increase in purchasing power of recipients. Gaining a more fine-g…
Monitoring of Migration of Health Workers from Nepal
The main objective of this assignment was to provide an overview of the current situation relating to the stock and flow of migrant Nepali health care workers. It identified: i) the major trends characterising international migration of health personnel from Nepal; ii) international a…
Study on Impacts of Migration on Forestry Sector, Forest Management and Forestry Institution
This project was undertaken to study the impacts of migration on forestry institutions in Nepal for the Multi Stakeholder Forestry Programme (MSFP), a Government of Nepal forestry programme, jointly supported by the Governments of Finland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom and which…
Baseline Survey for an Action Research to Build the Adaptive Capacity of the Migrant Sending Households in the Flood Affected Rural Communities in the Udayapur District, Nepal
As part of the larger action research meant to help build the adaptive capacity of migrant-sending households by leveraging the benefits of migration while mitigating against some of the risks, the overall objective of this study was support the development of mountain rural livelihoo…
Case Study on ‘Circular’ Labour Migration as an Adaptation Strategy in the Context of Environmental and Socio-Economic Changes in the Koshi Sub-Basin in Nepal
The study was designed to assess the role of circular labour migration in building household level adaptive capacity and community resilience to environmental and socio-economic changes in Nepal, with a special focus on the mountains and mid-hills. The study was conducted in three dis…
Rapid Assessment of the Impact of the 2015 Earthquake on Migrant Households in Nepal
In the aftermath of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck central Nepal on 25 April 2015, and its aftershocks, particularly a major one of magnitude 7.3 on 12 May 2015, issues related to the links between migration and disaster-preparedness as well as coping strategies adopted by t…
Urbanisation/Migration Nexus Project
This study was part of a DFID-SARH commissioned research project on the Urbanisation-Construction-Migration Nexus in five cities of South Asia, namely, Kabul, Dhaka, Chennai, Kathmandu, and Lahore. It contributes to the literature on urbanisation and migration, as well as to their pra…
A Case Study on the Role of Financial and Social Remittance in Supporting Rural Micro-Enterprise Development in Nepal
This study identified and mapped rural micro-enterprises set up by migrant returnees (male and female), young returnees, and returnees from India, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the US/Europe in five districts of Nepal; assessed the manner in which remittances are being channell…
