completed· Livelihoods

Generating Evidence for Future Skills Needs of Migrant Workers in Nepal

IOM Nepal will build on the recommendations and gaps identified on its existing studies on skills profiling and reintegration and conduct an in-depth and extensive macro level study to understand the supply and demand part of the skills. The study will map existing training institutions in Nepal, register the type of trainings provided and market diagnostics on the recruitment of trained personnel by private/public sector in Nepal and the role of private recruitment agencies in this process. This will consider pre and post COVID-19 situations and how the training institutes have realigned to meet the demands of COVID affected markets. It will assess employment trends in skilled, semi-skilled and lower-skilled categories of demands in various destinations, map new and emerging job market in various destination and identify key areas and sectors including green job or the one that promotes green economy that will align with Nepal’s human resources or based on its ongoing skills programme. It will also provide the list of skills areas in which further trainings could be considered for high earning of the Nepali migrant workers and government initiatives at the national level to address social protection needs of the returnee migrant workers.