Nepal Pilot Partners

Delivering the Nepal pilot across four labour migration corridors requires a wide network of partners on both the origin and destination sides of each corridor. No single organisation, including ILSI, can deliver safe labour migration alone.

Types of partner in the pilot

• Government counterparts. Nepal's labour migration authorities on the origin side, and labour ministries or equivalent bodies in destination countries, provide the regulatory and policy context the pilot operates within — see for governments.
• Civil society organisations. Local and destination-country organisations with established trust among migrant worker communities support outreach, pre-departure orientation and reintegration programming.
• Corridor liaison offices. ILSI-run or ILSI-affiliated offices in each destination country provide the local point of contact described in our global network.
• Employer partners. Employers who have adopted responsible recruitment practices and, where accredited, ILSI standards — see accreditation.

ILSI is building this partner network deliberately and transparently as the pilot matures; details of specific named partnerships will be published here and in ILSI's annual reports as they are formalised.

How partners are chosen

ILSI applies the same independence standards to selecting pilot partners that govern the institution itself, described in legal status: a partner organisation's involvement in the pilot must not create a financial or reputational conflict with ILSI's obligation to act independently on behalf of members. Government counterparts are engaged through their existing labour migration mandates rather than through any payment arrangement, and civil society partners are selected for demonstrated trust within migrant worker communities, not administrative convenience.

Growing the partner network over time

As the pilot expands within Nepal's four corridors and, eventually, to new origin countries, the partner network is expected to grow correspondingly. New partnerships are added deliberately, with each partner's role and responsibilities clearly defined, rather than accumulated informally as the programme scales. This deliberate pace is intended to preserve the quality of coordination described in the Nepal pilot as the network grows rather than diluting it, since a large but poorly coordinated partner network would serve members worse than a smaller, well-integrated one that communicates well internally and shares case information reliably where members have consented to it, than a wide network that looks impressive on paper but does not function as one system in practice.