The Women¡¯s Work and Employment Partnership (WWEP)
ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº¡¯s Gender group and (LSMS) team are working together in advancing the measurement of women¡¯s work and employment under the umbrella of the Women¡¯s Work and Employment Partnership (WWEP). The WWEP is a collaborative initiative of the World Bank, the , the . The WWEP is supported by of the and the . Launched in December 2014, the WWEP promotes inter-agency collaboration to operationalize the new international definitions of work and employment, which were adopted by the as the.
An important contribution of the is to narrow the definition of employment to work performed for pay or profit. Unlike under the previous definition, own use production of goods (for own consumption purposes) is now excluded from the employment category. In addition, the 2013 resolution introduces a new category of work, which recognizes all productive activities, paid and unpaid, and proposes several measures of labor underutilization. These new definitions have significant implications for the measurement of employment and labor force participation in household surveys including labor force surveys, especially for women and the rural poor.
Under the WWEP, the World Bank is conducting methodological research in three countries ¨C Ghana, Malawi and Sri Lanka (the latter jointly with the ILO). Additional pilot studies were conducted by the ILO; details can be found .