Do Graduation Programs Improve Outcomes for Young Children?
The Ultra-Poor Graduation (UPG) approach is a multi-component anti-poverty intervention that supports households to be able to weather and avoid shocks while finding a path towards sustainable live...
Clarifying Cost-Effectiveness Assumptions for Graduation Across Funders and Implementers
On June 23, 2026, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Village Enterprise, and HereWeGrow hosted a webinar for implementing organizations and funders seeking to increase transparency and comparabi...
A landmine does not know when a war is over. Long after ceasefires are signed and troops withdraw, landmines and explosive remnants of war continue to kill and injure civilians, force families from...
In March 2026, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) recorded an information session for researchers and research team members who plan to submit a proposal for our Citizen Security Research Initiat...
Over the past five years, IPA's Human Trafficking Research Initiative (HTRI) has supported rigorous research to understand what works—and what doesn't—in combating human trafficking. During this we...
In this webinar, three researchers—Qi Jiang (University of California, Berkeley), Andres Moya (Universidad de los Andes), and Dana Charles McCoy (Harvard Graduate School of Education)—presented the...
Protecting financial consumers starts with credible, actionable evidence. Through the Embedded Labs, Innovations for Poverty Action works alongside the Central Bank of Nigeria to strengthen its Dat...
In 2022, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) partnered with the Côte d’Ivoire Ministry of National Education and Literacy (MENA in French) to establish an education-focused Embedded Evidence Lab, ...
In 2023, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) partnered with the Côte d’Ivoire Ministry of National Education and Literacy (MENA in French) to establish an education-focused Embedded Evidence Lab, ...
Harnessing Rigorous Evidence to Advance Government-Led Solutions for Dignified Work and Inclusion of Displaced Populations. A Virtual Solution Session on the margins of the Second World Summit for ...
Use of digital financial services (DFS) is rapidly expanding across Nigeria—but so are the risks to consumers. Nearly one in four Nigerian users reported experiencing unexpected fees or charges in ...
Microentrepreneurship is a common form of employment for refugees, including among the 150,000 refugees in Kampala, Uganda. However, they often face constraints to business growth such as obstacles...
From July 2-3, 2025, the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) organized an international conference in Accra, Ghana, focused on the role of d...
The IPA Embedded Evidence Labs Program was first established in Peru in 2014, helping the Ministry of Education to harness the power of data and evidence to address their policy challenges. Since t...
El programa Laboratorios de Evidencia se estableció por primera vez en Perú en 2014, ayudando al Ministerio de Educación a aprovechar el poder de los datos y la evidencia para abordar sus desafíos ...
On December 10, 2024, the IPA Human Trafficking Research Initiative (HTRI) Team held a Q&A webinar for researchers and practitioners to learn more about collaboration and funding opportunities wit
In this webinar on December 10, 2024, hosted by Innovations for Poverty Action in collaboration with the Toulouse School of Economics, Hakan Ozyilmaz presented evidence from early research on insta...
On November 21st, IPA Philippines hosted the first of its four-part Best Bet Webinar Series, diving into the emerging evidence on teacher coaching to improve student learning outcomes. Participants...
On October 2, IPA's Education Sector Program Director, Sarah Kabay presented on our recently launched Two-Generation Initiative, working to improve the lives of children and disrupt the intergenera...