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The objective of the study has two main components: a) to provide an overview of the legal status and the general situation of street vendors, including their types, modes of operation, socio-economic background, and working conditions; to identify the challenges faced by them in securing legal status and accessing social protection measures, including the Social Security Fund, and other vulnerabilities they face in fiscal space; to identify their social protection needs, including from a gender and ‘leave no one behind’ perspective; and b) to identify the possible means and measures to ensure their access to legal status and make social protection measures to ensure their full realisation of the rights guaranteed in the Constitution of Nepal 2015; to identify the challenges that the duty-bearers face in the management and/or regularisation of street vendors; and to identify means and measures to regularise and/or manage the street vendors, enabling the full enjoyment of their human rights, particularly their social and economic rights.