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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Conducted in collaboration with the University of Oxford, this survey was undertaken in an effort to shed light on the nuances in the facts and figures on migration from the Tarai region, which national surveys (NLSS, NLFS, census) have not been able to do satisfactorily. A population...
The research examined the nexus between transnational migratory flows, gender equity and the governance of forests through case studies from Nepal. Despite the importance of migration for rural livelihoods and the country’s GDP, community forestry policies are still underpinned by t...
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