The ILO has been implementing the Fair Recruitment Initiative since 2014. The Fair Recruitment Initiative intends to prevent human trafficking and forced labour, protect the rights of workers from abusive and fraudulent recruitment and placement processes, and reduce the cost of labour migration and enhance development outcomes for migrant workers and their families as well as for countries of origin and destination. As a part of building awareness amongst stakeholder and shed light to country context, the Integrated Program on Fair Recruitment (FAIR) developed a recruitment profile for Nepal, which, gives a brief overview of the country’s migration tends, opportunities and challenges and engagement of the FAIR project in Nepal. This review provides an overview of legislative and policy frameworks concerning recruitment of migrant workers in Nepal and identifies gaps in relation to the ILO General Principles and Operational Guidelines for Fair Recruitment.