Internal Migrant Construction Workers in Nepal: Tackling Exploitative Labour Practices to Enhance Migration’s Impact on Poverty Reduction

Research conducted by the Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium in Nepal on the impact of such migration, demonstrated that migration has a positive role in helping households of migrant construction workers to escape poverty. However, due to a lack of adequate safety and social protection policies, the long-term health condition of workers could be compromised, of migrant construction workers to escape poverty. Appropriate policies to protect the workers from unsafe working and living conditions and their full enforcement are urgently required if such migration is to enhance the gains made in improving the livelihoods of migrant workers.