Projects

The ILO Office in Nepal operates a wide range of projects focusing on jobs for peace through local economic development, child labour, indigenous peoples, migration, HIV/AIDS, and other development challenges. The Employers’ and Workers’ organizations play an active role in formulating and implementing these projects. The overall purpose of this technical cooperation is to support the implementation of the Decent Work Country Programme in Nepal.

2023

  1. From Protocol to Practice: A Bridge to Global Action on Forced Labor - Phase II (The Bridge Project II) Nepal

    1 April 2023 - 31 January 2025

    The Project aims to improve the global, regional, and country-level capacity to eliminate forced labour through the framework, principles, and guidance of the 2014 ILO Protocol and Recommendation on Forced Labour.

  2. Enabling Sectoral Pathways towards Formality for Vulnerable Workers, and Enterprises in Nepal’s Informal Economy

    1 March 2023 - 28 February 2025

    This intervention aims to strengthen the technical and institutional capacities of tripartite constituents in Nepal to address vulnerabilities of workers and economic units in the informal economy in the agriculture, transport, and construction sectors and ultimately facilitate their transition to formality.

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    Empowered Women Prosperous Nepal (UNJP)

    1 January 2023 - 31 October 2026

    The Joint EU and UN programme, Empowered Women, Prosperous Nepal will contribute to the full realization of human rights and agency of Nepalese women, girls and people of diverse genders.

2022

  1. Building resilience for the future of work and the post COVID-19: Promoting rights and social inclusion through organization and formalization (PRS) - Phase II Nepal

    1 December 2022 - 30 November 2025

  2. Building resilience for the future of work and the post COVID19: Promoting rights and social inclusion through organization and formalization (PRS) Phase II

    1 December 2022 - 30 November 2025

    The project aims to contribute to the reduction of decent work deficits and gender inequalities in the informal economy and promote the transition to the formal economy in Nepal, India and Pakistan.

2021

  1. Safety + Health for All Workers in South Asia

    1 December 2020 - 31 December 2023

  2. Safety + Health for All Workers in South Asia: Nepal Component

    1 December 2020 - 31 December 2023

    The ILO/Japan project on “Safety + Health for All Workers in South Asia” is being implemented in the framework of the ILO’s Flagship programme “Safety + Health for All”. The project will contribute towards improving the safety and health of workers in plantation sector in South Asia (India, Nepal, Sri Lanka). This page describes the Nepal component under the project.

  3. Enhancing skills of women and workers informal economy, harnessing the potential of green transition: Towards human-centered recovery from COVID-19

    1 October 2021 - 31 December 2023

    The project focuses on skills development of women, returnee migrants and workers in informal economy through work-based learning approach and active engagement of employer’s organizations.

2020

  1. Strengthening Action against Violence and Harassment with Focus on Sexual Harassment in the World of Work in Nepal

    1 July 2020 - 31 December 2021

    Funded by the Government of Japan, the project aims to promote violence and harassment free workplace in the world of work in Nepal in line with ILO Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190).

  2. Immediate UN Response for coherent safeguarding the livelihoods of people made most vulnerable by COVID-19 in Nepal

    1 July - 31 December 2020

    The project is funded by the UN COVID-19 Response and Recovery Multi-Partner Trust Fund (COVID-19 MPTF or the Fund) and contributes to government’s early recovery efforts.

  3. Enhancing Social Protection System: Towards Investments for Results in Nepal

    1 April 2020 - 31 May 2023

    The project is part of the European Union’s global Action on improving synergies between social protection and public finance management (PFM), jointly implemented by the ILO, UNICEF and the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors (GCSPF), represented in Nepal by We Social Movements (WSM).

2019

  1. Asia Regional Child Labour Programme - Nepal

    2 May 2019 - 31 March 2024

    The Asia Regional Child Labour Programme (ARC) aims to reduce vulnerability to child labour and enhance protection of children from exploitation in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Myanmar and Pakistan to contribute to the eradication of child labour, particularly its worst forms.

  2. Asia Regional Child Labour Programme (ARC)

    2 May 2019 - 30 September 2023

    The Asia Regional Child Labour Programme (ARC) aims to reduce vulnerability to child labour and enhance protection of children from exploitation in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Myanmar and Pakistan to contribute to the eradication of child labour, particularly its worst forms.

  3. Integrated Programme on Fair Recruitment (FAIR) Phase II

    1 November 2018 - 30 June 2022

    This global project seeks to contribute to the promotion of fair recruitment practices globally and across specific migration corridors in North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. Target countries include Hong Kong SAR, Jordan, Nepal, the Philippines, Tunisia and Qatar.

  4. Constituents and stakeholders, provincial, and local levels have promoted more and better jobs, especially for young women, men and disadvantaged groups

    1 January 2019 - 31 December 2020

    The project focuses on addressing the constraints related to growth, job creation and fostering small and medium enterprises through specific policy, supporting institutions, capacity building, specific financial products, information and technology and improving labour relations.

2018

  1. Integrated Programme on Fair Recruitment (FAIR) - Phase II - Nepal

    1 November 2018 - 31 December 2021

    The project aims to contribute to the promotion of fair recruitment practices across specific migration corridors.

  2. Migrants Rights and Decent Work Project (MiRiDeW)

    1 October 2018 - 30 June 2023

    The project focuses on strengthening service delivery capacity of diplomatic missions in major destination countries; supporting Government of Nepal to be prepared and positioned better in regional and global migration related fora and reflect back its commitments; and promote new destinations or sectors in existing destinations for low-skilled Nepalese workers.

  3. ILO-FCDO Partnership Programme on Fair Recruitment and Decent Work for Women Migrant Workers in South Asia and the Middle East – Phase II (Nepal)

    1 April 2018 - 31 March 2023

    The Work in Freedom is an integrated programme to support mobility by choice among women and girls from destination countries (India, Bangladesh and Nepal) to decent jobs with safety and dignity of workers in destination countries (India, Lebanon, Jordan, Oman and Kuwait) through fair recruitment processes.

2017

  1. Skills for Employment Programme

    1 August 2017 - 31 July 2021

    The project aims to support domestic employment creation, increase productive employment and bring about higher development impacts from labour migration.

  2. Towards fair and sustainable global supply chains: Promoting decent work for invisible workers - Nepal Component

    1 July 2017 - 31 December 2020

    This Japan Government funded project is the second phase of “Way out of Informality in South Asia” (2012-2016). The project aims at promoting approaches that promote decent work at the lower tiers of global supply chains.