Completed Projects

Collaborating Partner: Tufts University
Duration: December 2016 to June 2018
CESLAM collaborated with Tufts University in the impact evaluation of the International Labour Organisation’s Integrated Programme on Fair Recruitment of migrant workers. The impact assessment focused on the Nepal-Jordan corridor and worked with fair labour recruiters. The assessment aimed to determine the effectiveness of fair recruitment on debt bondage, excessive overtime, power mindset, migration, regret, cognitive dissonance, abuse, satisfaction, productivity, and firm compliance.

Collaborating Partner: Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Duration: 1 March 2018 to 30 April 2018
The country case study under this assignment focused on two selected sectors relevant to the SDGs. The study also explored the SDG principle, leave no one behind, and how this may be affected by changes in the state-CSO relationship.
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Funding Agency: The World Bank
Duration: 1 May 2017 to 31 December 2017
The prime objective of this assignment was to review past experiences and to recommend future improvements in the management of labour issues in transport projects in Nepal. The focus was on two Government of Nepal departments: i) the Department of Roads; and ii) the Department of Local Infrastructure Development and Agricultural Roads. The study addressed the existing need to take stock of systems already in place and to identify any gaps where improvements in the future could provide for better management of risks/impacts associated with labour issues.

Funding Agency: American Jewish World Service
Duration: 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017
The broad objective of this research was to understand the scale and manner of the humanitarian response triggered by the 2015 earthquake. It identified the major humanitarian organisations, both governmental and non-governmental, involved in relief and rebuilding efforts, and the working modalities adopted by these organisations to help the earthquake-affected population. The study also assessed the impact of these interventions on the target population and the larger society, while also exploring how and what specifically these external actors have or have not contributed towards developing community resilience that would allow people to respond better to future calamities.

Funding Agency: Open Society Institute
Duration: 28 November 2016 to 31 December 2017
The project developed and conducted a general population survey to provide robust statistical evidence on the extent to which civil legal cases, mainly related family and administrative, are experienced, by whom, and how they are dealt with in Nepal.

Funding Agency: Americares Foundation
Duration: 4 May 2016 to 15 September 2017

Collaborating Partner: People Forum for Human Rights
Duration: May 2016 to September 2017

Funding Agency: UN Women
Duration: January to July 2017
The objective of this study was to generate evidence to inform policy discourse on the causes of women’s migration for foreign employment and ways to reintegrate them back into the national labour market upon their return. 
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Funding Agency: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Duration: May 2016 to July 2017
The aim of the assignment was to arrive at a reliable and evidence-based understanding of the economic impact of immigration in Nepal, as part of a larger project looking at 10 low- and middle-income countries. The study consisted of two parts. First, a survey and review of the policy and historical context of immigration in Nepal. The second part consisted of a sector study of trade and  manufacturing in Nepal, which provided an overview of migrant workers in Nepal’s trade and manufacturing sectors, analyses the economic contribution of migrant workers in these sectors, and explored why this contribution might be different from the contribution of native workers. 
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Funding Agency: IMC Worldwide
Duration: 1 August 2016 to 31 March 2017
With more women joining the workforce the issue of violence against women in the workplace is coming to the fore. In order to understand its prevalence in Nepal, in coordination with the Department of Women and Children, SSB conducted a survey of 937 members of women’s cooperatives spread across the seven districts of Jumla, Dadeldhura, Bardiya, Ilam, Chitwan, Sarlahi and Kaski.

Collaborating Partner: Centre for International Forestry Research
Duration: July 2016 to March 2017
The aim of this project was to produce a peer-reviewed paper through further analysis of the household survey and qualitative data gathered during CIFOR and Social Science Baha’s collaborative research on gender, migration, and forest governance, which examined the nexus between transnational migratory flows, gender equity, and the governance of forests through case studies from Nepal. It also had the added objective of conducting an analysis of policies related to land use change to understand how they consider issues related to migration and whether they are conducive to leveraging migration and remittances for investment in land.

Funding Agency: VSO Nepal
Duration: December 2016 to March 2017
The objective of this study was to explore the nature and effects of violence against returned women migrant workers (WMWs) and their family members as well as to investigate the informal and formal community responses to gender-based violence (GBV) among them. The findings were to inform interventions targeted at enhancing community’s engagement in the prevention of GBV against returned WMWs, at both family and community levels.