Protecting and Promoting the Rights of Nepali Migrant Workers

The Partnership on 'Protecting and Promoting Rights of Nepali Migrant Workers including Care Migrant Workers (PPPR-MW)’ has the financial support from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and has as ultimate objective to promote right-based approaches to labour migration. The outcome of this project is to support labour migration stakeholders in Nepal to promote rights-based approaches to labour migration through implementing several activities to achieve two major outputs namely, improving capacity of government and recruitment stakeholders to ensure fair recruitment, and effective protection of Nepali migrant care workers.The project collaborates with key labour migration stakeholders in Nepal and aims to build upon existing initiatives, partnerships, networks and lesson learned of the ILO in the field of labour migration. More especifically, the project actively contributes to localizing ILO’s flagship Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI) in labour migration and develops synergizes with the Migrant Rights and Decent Work Project (MIRIDEW) to address pertinent issues in promoting rights of Nepali migrant workers with the focus on Nepali migrant workers engaged in care economy. This project also builds a strong synergy with STREAM Project focused on social protection of migrant workers in GCC countries and those in the countries of origin in Asia.

Project symbol

NPL/24/03/DEU

Admin unit

CO-Kathmandu

Start date

12/12/2024

End date

31/08/2026

Total allocation

199551

Total expenditure

Status

Active

126973

Development Partners

Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Country/Countries

Nepal

Outcomes

Outcome 6: Protection at work for all