All publications: Nepal

Major accomplishments

Safety and Health for All Plantation Workers in South Asia

Fact sheet

Strengthening of Employment Service Centres in Nepal (SESC)

This project aims to strengthen Employment Service Centres (ESCs) to fully deliver their mandate, while supporting the government at the federal, provincial, and local levels to further develop the policy and institutional framework of Public...

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

This project aims to provide technical support to tripartite constituents to promote the transition towards formality for women workers and enterprises in sectors with high incidence of informality.

Fact sheet

Enhancing Labour Rights in the Informal Economy (ELRIE)

The project aims to ensure that informal economy workers, especially women, can better exercise their labour and social protection rights and benefit from improved access to relevant services and protection. It focuses on three main outcomes.

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Policies, Partnership, Learning and Local Empowerment (PPLL): A Project on Child Labour in South Asia

This project aims to contribute to the acceleration of actions against child labour in South Asia.

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A Systemic Approach to Refugee and Host Communities Livelihoods in Nepal

The second phase of this project sought to improve and scale up market-based livelihood interventions for Bhutanese refugees along with host communities and explore new high-potential sectors of intervention in Koshi Province and provide technical...

Fact sheet

Migrant Rights and Decent Work (MiRiDeW), Phase II

The second phase of this project funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) collaborates with key government ministries, employers’, workers’ organizations, and civil society organizations aiming to enhance the economic and...

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Joint EU and UN Programme - Empowered Women, Prosperous Nepal

This project seeks to contribute to the full realization of Nepalese women’s and girls’ human rights and agency role, promote gender equality and women’s empowerment, and ensure that women, men, girls, and boys, in all their diversity, have access...

Bridge Project II in Nepal

From Protocol to Practice: A Bridge to Global Action on Forced Labour (The Bridge Project II) in Nepal

The second phase of this project will continue raising awareness and building capacity to combat forced labour through policy advocacy, research, and technical assistance to the government and social partners through the implementation of national...

Asia-Pacific Migration Report 2024: Assessing Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration

The report highlights the realities of migrants in Asia and the Pacific and provides comprehensive recommendations to enhance migration governance to be more inclusive and gender-responsive.

Factsheet

Key achievements of the Safety + Health for All Plantation Workers in Nepal project

A project of the ILO Flagship Programme on occupational safety and health

Fair recruitment

Promising practices for fair recruitment in Nepal: Digitisation of labour migration processes for increased harmonization and oversight

This document highlights promising practices for fair recruitment in Nepal with a focus on the use of digital technology for increased harmonisation and oversight of migration processes.

Social protection

World social protection report 2024-26: Regional companion report for Asia and the Pacific

This Asia and the Pacific regional companion report complements the ILO’s World Social Protection Report 2024-26: Universal social protection for climate action and a just transition.

South Asia Qualifications Referencing Framework: Technical Meeting#3

Under the auspices of GOALS (Governance of Labour Migration in South and South East Asia) ILO is assisting South Asian member states, through a consultative process to develop and implement Regional Qualifications Framework. As part of this...

South Asia Qualifications Referencing Framework: Final Report

Under the auspices of GOALS (Governance of Labour Migration in South and Southeast Asia) ILO is assisting South Asian member states, through a consultative process to develop and implement Regional Qualifications Framework. This report is a...

ILO Working paper 120

Working conditions of subnational government workers in selected South and South-east Asian countries: Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia,...

This study investigates the working conditions of subnational government (SNG) employees in select South and Southeast Asian countries, viz. Bangladesh, Nepal, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. It is situated in the context of decentralized...

APESO

Asia-Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2024: Promoting decent work and social justice to manage ageing societies

This Asia-Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2024 report pulls together the most recent statistics to depict the state of the labour market and its impact on the 3.4 billion people living in the region. Beyond past trends, the report examines the...

ADBI-OECD-ILO joint publication

Labor migration in Asia: Trends, skills certification, and seasonal work

The report describes the labour migration landscape and trends in Asia as the region continues its post-COVID-19 pandemic recovery.

ILO Financial Education brochure

This brochure introduces the main objectives and characteristics of the ILO Financial Education programme including the key elements of the ILO approach, the major results achieved by the programme as well as its key features and implementation...

Manual for training of trainers

Labour market reintegration of migrant workers and former refugees upon return in their origin countries

The manual is part of overall ILO’s assistance and collaboration in promoting successful and sustainable labour market reintegration, requiring labour market opportunities, infrastructure, enabling policies, financial and non-financial services,...