Books and Reports

This paper discusses eight regional and international processes and frameworks related to labour and migration that Nepal is part of, namely: • Abu Dhabi Dialogue• Colombo Process• South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation• Bali Process (on People Smuggling, Trafficking...

Migrant workers, including Nepali labour migrants, have been among the most affected by the health and economic impact caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Obstacles in accessing justice, a long-standing problem for migrant workers, has been further exacerbated by the pandemic. This study...

Poor populations in low-income countries are likely to suffer the worst of the economic fallout from the COVID-19 crisis. 75% of the world’s poor reside in rural agrarian areas where livelihoods fluctuate with the seasonal crop cycle. We investigate how seasonality mediates economic...

A number of policy decisions relating to the private recruitment agencies (PRAs) have been made in Nepal, and there have been some news reports of these decisions benefiting the agencies. However, there is still a dearth of information on the extent of the impact of Covid-19 pandemic ...

Japan and South Korea hold the same goal of preventing unskilled foreigners from settling down while implementing different immigration policies. This paper documents the migration experiences of Nepali workers in the two countries from the early 2000s to the late 2010s to explain the...

he pandemic caused by the coronavirus disease, COVID-19, has had enormous repercussions as a global health and safety risk and it has also reshaped the socio-economic and political landscapes. The highly infectious disease has severely affected the supply chain of goods and services, ...

This study seeks to review and analyse Nepal’s legal and policy provisions as they relate to the country’s commitment to and recent progress toward achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8, particularly the decent work agenda. The analysis looks at whether and if existing la...

The South Asia Work in Freedom Transnational Evaluation (SWiFT) is a five-year programme of research and evaluation funded by the UK Department of International Development (DFID/UKAID). SWiFT assesses and informs the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) DFIDfunded Work in Free...

This report on returnee women migrant workers (RWMWs) draws from insights shared by 1,210 women to understand the influences, conditions, and challenges that characterize women’s migration from and reintegration to Nepal. This is a summarised and edited version of the report ‘Retu...

Governing Labour Migration in Nepal looks at the legal and policy framework that regulates migrant labour originating in Nepal. It examines the country’s laws related to foreign employment, bilateral agreements signed with destination countries and international conventions ratifie...