On December 15, the IPA SME Program's network of researchers convened for an engaging discussion on innovative research designs, early-stage results, and new papers focused on entrepreneurship and private sector development in low- and middle-income countries.

The economic crisis accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on women’s economic and skilling activities.Containment measures like physical distancing, curfews, and lockdowns have exacerbated pre-existing gender differences in time use, increasing the pressures of unpaid care work that fall on women.

On October 6, IPA Kenya, alongside Kenya’s State Department for Youth Affairs (SDY), Micro and Small Enterprises Authority (MSEA), and the World Bank, hosted the dissemination of the COVID 19, Gender and Youth Employment Study.