LSMS+ has been established with grants from the Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality Trust Fund, the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity Building, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
LSMS+ has built on the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ partnerships with (1)??on??and??on measuring?asset ownership and control?from a gender perspective, and (2) the International Labour Organization and the Data2X project on operationalization of new definitions of work and employment.
Over the period of 2016-2021, LSMS+ has been working, in collaboration with the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Gender Group and the partner national statistical offices (NSOs), to fulfill the ?to support 6 IDA countries in collecting intra-household, sex-disaggregated household survey data on asset ownership, employment and entrepreneurship.
Finally, LSMS+ is a partner in several on-going initiatives focused on the collection and use of intra-household individual-disaggregated survey data:
Strengthening Gender Surveys and Statistics through IDA 19: In collaboration with ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Gender Group and Poverty and Equity Global Practice ¨C working with NSOs in at least 10 IDA countries to increase the availability, quality, and relevance of gender data related to men¡¯s and women¡¯s economic outcomes, including access to more and better jobs, entrepreneurship, and ownership of assets.
Intra-Household, Individual-level Estimation of Poverty: In collaboration with Gender Group, Institute of Fiscal Studies and Simon Fraser University ¨C developing and validating methods for using survey data to derive resource shares and intra-household poverty estimates.
Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET) - In collaboration with ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Africa Gender Innovation Lab, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Rescue Committee, and Oxford University ¨C developing improved survey methods for measuring control over assets, time use and agency.
Women¡¯s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) - In collaboration with IFPRI, and Emory University ¨C developing a scale and associated fieldwork protocols for measuring empowerment at the individual-level in national household and farm surveys, including those supported by the .
