Nepal – 1st – Gender

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
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	Continu ous	Awareness programmes on labour rights implemented in local levels
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
26	To carry out study on workplace sexual harassment, abuse and gender-based discrimination	National Women’s Commission	Business enterprises	Second year	Study report
27	To study the state of implementation of the legal provision to give priority to women in employment along with the special privileges provided by the state	MOLESS	MOWCSC/trade union/ business enterprises	Second year	Increased participation of women in employment
28	Formulate laws to ensure the rights of women workers working in the entertainment sector	MOLESS	MOWCSC/stakeholders	Fourth year	Law formulated
29	Carry out study on whether the women workers in the formal and informal sector are getting equal pay for equal work	MOWCSC	Province and local level	Second year	Study report
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
35	To implement the recommendation of the CEDAW committee on rights of women and indigenous nationalities	MOWCSC	Indigenous and nationalities commission	Continu ous	Regular implementation of recommendations
47	Encourage the development of LGBTIQA++ and disabled friendly workplace in the enter prises	MOLESS/MOICS	Business enterprises	Continu ous	Gender-friendly, disabled-friendly and LGBTIQA++ friendly workplace available
49	Put an end to all kinds of discrimination based on gender, geography, race, religion, language and ideology in the business enterprises.	All ministries and com missions	Business enterprises	Regular	End of discrimination
50	To run awareness raising so as to guarantee the right to gender equality and non discrimination.	All ministries and com missions	Business enterprises	Regular	Programmes organised

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
64	To build discrimination-free, sexual violence free, abuse-friend and human rights friendly working environment in the workplace.	Business enterprises/ thematic association/ federation	Trade union/MOLESS	Continuous	Labour law complied
65	To establish and mobilize gender equality fund in the enterprises.	Business enterprises/ thematic association/ federation	Trade union/MOLESS	Continuous	Establishment and mobilization of gender equality fund
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
67	To put an end to sexual exploitation, abuse and gender-based discrimination in the workplace and fully comply with human rights law.	Enterprises and business associations/ federation	Trade union/MOLESS	Continuous	Compliance of labour law
83	To implement equal pay for equal work provision without any discrimination based on gender, geography, ethnicity, religion, language and ideology in the business enterprise	Business enterprises/ thematic association/ federation	Labour and Employment Office	Continuous	Provision of equal pay for equal work implemented

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
115	To make the monitoring by the parliamentary committee and human rights mechanisms of the gender, geography, racial, religious, linguistic and ideology-based discrimination free working environment regular and effective.	Parliamentary Com mittee/constitutional commissions	Stakeholders	Continuous	Effective monitoring
118	Set up fast-track working mechanism for immediate hearing of the violence based on gender, geography, ethnicity, religion, language and ideology that has taken place in the business enterprise.	Business enterprises	MOLESS	Continuous	Fast track mechanism to have been developed
120	Manage an Ombudsperson for hearing the grievances of gender-based and racial discrimination in the enterprises	Business enterprise	MOLESS	Continuous	Provision of Ombudsperson