"Less than one percent: Low-cost, responsible recruitment in Qatar Construction Sector," 29 May 2019

This report assesses the actual cost of responsible recruitment by closely examining the 2015-2016 recruitment efforts of QDVC, a general contracting and construction company currently active in Qatar. QDVC has pursued worker recruitment in a responsible fashion that to our knowledge has never before been tried in the Gulf. Based on the company’s recruitment drive in 2015-16, we conclude that in this case, the cost of recruitment was far less than 1% of the overall cost of the construction project. Moreover, we find that other construction companies could responsibly recruit workers at a similarly reasonable cost.