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

Given the large scale of out-migration taking place all over the country, there is no sector in Nepal that remains unaffected by it and this is true for the forestry sector as well. Migration en masse and remittance migrants sent back have had several implications on land use, labou...

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...

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

The objective of the study was to understand how investment in urban construction and its concurrent demand for labour is giving rise to new and varied temporal forms of migration....

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...

Labour Market Trends Study in Nepal

The objective of the study was to analyse current trends and patterns of migration and provide an assessment of the roles and activities of government and private organisations in relation to the existing policies and systems directed at information, preparation, and recruitment of la...

Migrant Workers’ Access to Justice

CESLAM was involved in a study on migrant workers’ access to justice, a joint collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania, the University of New South Wales, and the Open Society Foundations’ International Migration Initiative. The project was designed to identify the most s...

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