Introducing Global WEP
Introducing Global WEP
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From an initial membership of 13 countries, Global WEP has grown to include over 40 research scholars from 35 countries across Europe, North and South America, Australasia, the Middle East and Africa. Global WEP researchers challenge entrepreneurship policy by applying a gender lens to highlight embedded inequalities and offering recommendations to enhance the entrepreneurial ecosystems in their respective countries.
The group also maps and critically compares entrepreneurship policies from around the globe, identifying good practice examples of effective policy supports. Network members use their data to inform local policy-making, working closely with their local enterprise and social welfare agencies by way of knowledge exchange and sharing of information.
The focus of the Global WEP
The focus of the Global WEP
The Global WEP approach is innovative on several levels. Firstly, in terms of focus and commitment, Global WEP’s network members focus on women’s entrepreneurship policy, and are committed to using their research skills to promote equality in entrepreneurship policy development and operationalisation. Members are experienced academic researchers with a thorough understanding of the gendered entrepreneurial landscape; they also have well established research and practice networks.
Secondly, in terms of geographical reach, Global WEP scholars are committed to developing a global entrepreneurship policy agenda, and hence members are drawn from across the globe, with both developed and under-developed economies represented. Global WEP’s membership has more than doubled in size since its establishment in 2014, and we are currently working on making new connections in South East Asia.
Thirdly, in terms of stakeholder collaboration, Global WEP researchers seek to make a difference, and hence liaise closely with relevant actors and decision makers in their respective countries’ entrepreneurial ecosystem so that their research findings, expertise, shared knowledge and recommendations can be put into action. In addition, Global WEP collaborates with several international organisations - such as the:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),
The DIANA International Research Project,
The Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (ISBE),
The Women’s Economic Imperative (WEI)
International Consultants for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise (ICE)
All of which are organisations/initiatives that can not only learn from and disseminate Global WEP’s findings, but that can also help put them into action by incorporating them into their own initiatives to effect real impact.
Fourthly, in terms of its research methodology, Global WEP research teams adopt a unique ‘common reading-guide’ approach to critique the potential nuanced gender biases in existing policy documents and practices in their respective countries. Each country research team uses the same reading guide, allowing for consistency and comparability of the data collected.
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