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What are the up-and-coming innovations with the potential to improve lives at scale? Our sector teams have thoroughly reviewed the evidence and today we’re sharing a new report highlighting 14 promising interventions: “Best Bets: Emerging Opportunities for Impact at Scale”: bit.ly/bestbetsipa #BestBetsIPA #EmergingInnovations

IPA Philippines and International Rice Research Institute IRRI Education conducted a 4-day Introductory Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Capacity Building Program in Laguna, Philippines. Through this knowledge-sharing and training event, participants learned about: ✅ the importance of M&E in evidence-based policymaking and programming; ✅ the relationship between agricultural development, poverty alleviation, and evidence-based policy and programs; ✅ practical skills and tools for conducting effective M&E in agricultural projects; ✅ areas for collaboration among organizations working towards sustainable agricultural development. Thanks to all attendees, presenters, and speakers from CGIAR, UN Women Asia and the Pacific, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and University of the Philippines Los Baños for their contributions to the success of the event! IPA looks forward to fostering a sustainable #AgriculturalDevelopment ecosystem with our partners. Learn more about the event: bit.ly/ipairri2024 #MoreEvidenceLessPoverty #AgriculturalDevelopment #MonitoringandEvaluation

What happens to a #MobileMoney market when new agents enter? Will consumer protection issues like trust and transparency improve? Francis Annan and Chi Man Cheung discuss new #ConsumerProtection research that will try to answer these questions. Read more here➡️bit.ly/dfsmmmgh #IPAGhana #Finclusion #MoreEvidenceLessPoverty

Research in #Ghana found that students in public schools who received #TargetedInstruction boosted their test scores by 27% of a grade level, suggesting significant promise for improving learning outcomes within existing school systems on a large scale. Read more about this impact evaluation conducted by IPA Ghana in collaboration with Ghana Education Service, Ghana National Association of Teachers, Youth Employment Agency (YEA) Ghana, with researchers Annie Duflo, Jessica Kiessel and & Adrienne Lucas: bit.ly/tcaiedugh #IPAGhana #Education #MoreEvidenceLessPoverty

In #Ghana, improved monitoring and support by school principals and supervisors significantly increased the implementation of #DifferentiatedInstruction where students are taught at their level of learning in classrooms. In turn, student test scores jumped by one-third of a school year. Read more about this study and its promising results, conducted by IPA Ghana in collaboration with the Ghana Ministry of Education, UNICEF and researchers Sabrin Beg, Anne Fitzpatrick and Adrienne Lucas: bit.ly/ghdi1821 #IPAGhana #Education #MoreEvidenceLessPoverty

During times of crisis, we often see spikes in individual-level violence, such as gender-based #violence, intimate partner violence, and violence against children. Though protection is a key focus of #humanitarian actors, there is limited evidence on what programs and policies are actually working to prevent and reduce violence against women, adolescents, and children in conflict-affected settings. IPA’s new #PolicyBrief summarizes the existing evidence base on strategies to prevent and mitigate individual-level violence, drawing important lessons for policymakers and practitioners. The featured studies highlight how to combine programs to reduce IPV, target populations, and the importance of community networks and also highlights questions that remain unanswered. Read more to find out about the key lessons: bit.ly/hpibrief2024 IPA and Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)'s Humanitarian Protection Initiative (#HPI) aims to generate rigorous evidence to inform policies and programs that protect conflict-affected populations from harm and mitigate the effects of conflict where harm has occurred. With generous support by Department for International Development (DFID) from the UK government, HPI will foster partnerships for and fund randomized impact evaluations to inform the design of policies and programs that protect conflict-affected populations from violence, coercion, and deliberate deprivation, and ensure their dignity, safety and respect for their rights. Learn more about HPI: bit.ly/ipahpi

Check out the latest edition of IPA’s Consumer Protection Quarterly which features IPA’s work on improving consumer redress, workshops with Cerise+SPTF, and briefs on women’s access to credit and government-to-person payments in #Bangladesh ↓ Want to receive this newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here: bit.ly/cprinews #Newsletter #ConsumerProtectionQuarterly

We are delighted to share that the Philippines Socioeconomic Panel Survey (#PSPS) has received the unanimous approval of the Regional Development Council (RDC) of #WesternVisayas during the 2nd RDC Quarterly Meeting on June 25. RDCs are the highest policy-making body governing the administrative regions of the #Philippines on socioeconomic initiatives. IPA Philippines extends its gratitude to the outgoing RDC Chairperson Governor Benitez of Bacolod, Co-Chair Atty. Jobert Penaflorida of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce-Western Visayas, Vice Chairperson Regional Director Arecio Casing Jr of NEDA, and RDC Members Governors Rhodora Cadiao of Antique, Fredenil Castro, Jose Miraflores of Aklan, and Arthur Defensor Jr. of Iloilo for their support of the #PSPS. IPA is committed to ensuring the PSPS is locally grounded and relevant to decision-makers. IPA also would like to thank National Economic & Development Authority Region 6 for its continuous support of the PSPS and in connecting us to government partners. We look forward to continuing our collaboration in finding effective solutions to improve lives. Learn more about the PSPS: bit.ly/ipapsps

We are excited to announce that IPA's Entrepreneurship and Private Sector Development (#EPSD) Program and Lab for Inclusive Fintech (LIFT) at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business are hosting an open #CallforPapers for a Researcher Gathering on Oct 7-8, 2024, at the Haas School of Business, Berkeley, CA. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, new work on #entrepreneurship, #PrivateSector development, and #fintech. Submit your detailed abstract or paper by July 31, 2024, by following this link: bit.ly/ipalift2024

Ministries of Education from 10 countries gathered in Kampala, Uganda, for the 3rd edition of IPA’s Cross-Country Learning Exchange (#CCLE). The Exchange provided the opportunity for these ministries to share insights and experiences from their #EmbeddedEvidenceLabs. What are the key takeaways from the CCLE? IPA’s Senior Director of Embedded Evidence Labs Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte shared the detailed insights and lessons learned in this blog post: bit.ly/ccleblog #EmbeddedEvidenceLabs #CCLE #Education