From 28 August to 1 September, 2014, Aishwarya Ratan, Director of the Financial Inclusion Program, participated in discussions involving policymakers and practitioners from around the world at the Responsible Finance Forum and the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) Forum in Perth, Australia.

IPA Peru,  J-PAL, and LAC launched a three-week course and workshop on Experimental Impact Evaluation for policymakers of the Viceministry of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) and Industry within Peru’s Ministry of Production.Participants worked with researchers and J-PAL and IPA staff to develop evaluation designs and presented them to the Viceministry.

IPA Peru presented results from the Remedial Science Education evaluation as part of a series of monthly evidence workshops with Peru's Ministry of Education.The Remedial Science Education program provides tutors at schools in metropolitan Lima with training on how to reinforce the science curricula using hands-on scientific methods.