On July 5, IPA Philippines signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), the Philippine government's primary socioeconomic policy think tank, to use and generate evidence locally and to inform national policy decisions. Through this collaboration, PIDS will support IPA to ensure that the data collected through the Philippines Socioeconomic Panel Survey and evidence that will be generated from the studies are co-created and shared with relevant decision-makers in the government and other stakeholders. IPA Philippines Country Director Aftab Opel and PIDS President Aniceto Orbeta Jr signed the MOU at the IPA Philippines Office in Manila. 

The Philippines Socioeconomic Panel Survey (PSPS) is a twenty-year survey in rural Western Visayas providing policymakers and researchers the opportunity to test and scale innovations that improve lives.