Nepal – 1st – Children
The Nepalese NAP contains a background section:
2.1.3 Rights of Women and Children
2.2 Business and Human Rights Implementation Action Plan
1. Protection
| S.No. | Activity | Responsible agency | Partner agency | Timeline | Performance Indicator |
| 2 | To review the laws related to abolition of forced labour. | MOLESS | Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs (MOLJPA)/Trade Union/ Umbrella organisations of business sector | Third year | Law reviewed |
| 5 | To carry out study on the state of child labour, all kinds of discriminatory practices, and the right to association within the business | Institute of policy studies) | MOLESS Local level/Labour and Employment Office | First year | Study report |
| 12 | To conduct awareness programs related to labour rights (prohibition of child labour, prohibition of forced labour, minimum wages/ benefits, holidays, social security, working hours, special rights of women and respect for labour, equal pay for equal work). | Labour and employment offices/ local level/ employers/ trade union | Provincial government, organisations working in the field of human rights, civil society | Continuous | Awareness programmes on labour rights implemented in local levels |
| 14 | To effectively implement the national master plan on prohibition of child labour (2075 2085) | MOLESS | MOICS, MOWCSC | Continu ous from first year | Action plan implemented |
| 23 | To carry out survey on child labour and discriminatory practices within the business sector | MOWCSC | stakeholder | First year | Study report |
| 24 | To update and implement standards related to breastfeeding room and child care centre in the workplace | MOWCSC | Business enterprises and thematic associations/fed erations | Continu ous | Updated standards of breast feeding room and child care centres |
| 25 | Implement various programmes to bring down the school dropout rate | MOEST/MOWCSC | Educational institutions/ stakeholders | Continu ous | Decline in school dropout rate |
| 34 | Effective enforcement of the provision related to meaningful participation and free prior and informed consent of the stakeholders including indigenous nationalities, Dalits, women, children, representatives of customary organisations, people with disabilities and senior citizens of the affected zone in preliminary environment assessment, environmental impact assessment and social impact assessment. | MOFE | Business enterprise/pro poser | Continu ous | Meaning participation and consultation |
2.2 Business and Human Rights Implementation Action Plan
2. Respect
| 62 | To develop the structures used for business operations in a consumer (disabled/senior citizen/women and children) friendly manner | Business enterprises | Thematic association/ federation/consumer rights activists | Continuous | Consumer-friendly structures |
| 66 | To manage mother child-friendly breast feeding room, child care centre and separate gender-friendly toilets in the workplace. | Business enterprises/ thematic association/ federation | Trade union/MOLESS | Continuous | Provision of mother child friendly breast feeding room, child care centre and separate gender friendly toilets |
3. Remedy
| 97 | Expand and enhance the capacity of the closed bench related to women and child-friendly bench. | Supreme Court | MOWCSC | First year | Provision of closed bench and child-friendly bench |
| 98 | To adopt a policy of zero tolerance towards women and child rights violation | Nepali Police/courts | MOWCSC/stakeholder | Continuous | Zero tolerance to violation of women and child rights |
| 99 | To establish and mobilize a compensation fund for the victim worker/labourer women and children. | MOWCSC | Business enterprises/ thematic association/ federation | Continuous | Fund established and mobilized |
| 100 | Provide free legal aid and consultation service for women and child rights and easy access to justice | Nepal Bar Association, central legal aid committee/judicial committee/courts/ Office of the Attorney General | MOWCSC/stakeholder | Continuous | Free legal aid and counseling service |
| 101 | To consolidate the mechanism for filing complaints about women and child rights violation in the multi-national companies, and resolving the problem. | Business enterprises/ thematic association/ federation | MOICS | Continuous | Decline in incidents of rights violation in trans-border, international and multi-national companies |
| 102 | Carry out complaint registration and adjudication of cases of violation of women and children’s rights in a hassle-free, unconditional and with complete confidential manner. | Business enterprises/ Courts | MOWCSC/stakeholder | Continuous | Decline in incidents of human rights violation |