We bring together global knowledge and research to tackle key jobs challenges—spanning private investment and firm growth, labor mobility, social protection, and skills development. These insights are captured in our databases, publications, and toolkits, giving practitioners the evidence and guidance needed to design better jobs strategies.
Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund
We design and make publicly available practical toolkits and guidelines for project managers, economists, researchers, and other development professionals working on jobs projects. They aim to provide action-oriented guidance for practitioners or policymakers to apply to their work:
The ‘Jobs M&E Toolkit’ provides a package of resources for project teams and clients to support mainstreaming the jobs agenda in World Bank Group lending operations and beyond.
The Toolkit contains a set of definition and guidance on indicators for key results on jobs, data collection forms and manuals, which are tailored by beneficiary type: individuals and firms.
The availability of measurable indicators should encourage a more systematic assessment of jobs outcomes. Many projects in the WBG portfolio are tackling jobs challenges, but the lack of resources available on jobs measurement has often discouraged teams from articulating links to jobs in their Project Development Objectives (PDOs) and/or results frameworks. Application of defined indicators and standard methodologies will help address accountability for results attributable to WBG and other development partners’ projects upon project completion.
The Jobs M&E Toolkit provides resources to be used throughout the entire project cycle. It is best applied ex-ante in the design of projects and their M&E systems, so that data collection can support implementation progress and reporting from the outset. Regular monitoring and data availability will underpin project completion to assess achievements in job results ex-post. The indicators and data collection forms may also be useful for related mid-term, final or impact evaluations.
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Value chain studies allows for an in-depth understanding of the interrelationships among firms that operate in a supply network and of factors that determine the structure, dynamism, and competitiveness of these chains.
The Jobs in Value Chains Survey Toolkit will help illuminate the number of jobs, where they are located in the value chain, and the extent and nature of relationships among actors in a value chain. The approach involves value chain mapping and firm-level surveys which quantify employment potential (inclusive of the informal sector), cover the extent and nature of relationships among actors in a value chain and identify possible constraints to business operations and growth. Data emerging from these studies can be analyzed to provide solutions to value chain gaps and existing constraints, as well as, to measure the impact of specific job interventions on job creation.
The toolkit contains a Jobs in Value Chain Guide that provides an overview of key items to consider when designing and delivering value chain analysis with the help of the Jobs in Value Chains survey toolkit. It also includes a variety of tools that support the planning and implementation of the Jobs in Value Chains study.
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Job Diagnostic Data
The Jobs Diagnostic data, tools, and guidance page holds disaggregated and comparable global jobs indicators for all countries for which the World Bank has standardized labor variables from household surveys that are in the World Bank’s micro data library. You will also find the latest data tools and guidelines produced by the World Bank’s Jobs Group for country Jobs Diagnostics and our latest reports and standardized outputs.
Job Diagnostic Online Tools
The Jobs Diagnostic Tools page contains a range of useful tools to identify the main jobs challenges faced by a country—especially those that appear to be binding constraints to improving jobs outcomes for poor people and vulnerable communities. Click for an introduction to the tools. These tools are designed to assist users in conducting jobs diagnostics.