Peacebuilding programming and policy is based on assumptions about how development interventions can contribute to peace, but little research has been done to rigorously test these theories of change.On June 7, 2019, IPA Peace & Recovery Program Coordinator Nessa Kenny and J-PAL Policy Manager Aprille Knox gave a brown-bag presentation at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP0 in order to engage USIP staff in thinking about how to produce and use evidence for peace.

From June 2-6, IPA Kenya Research Associate James Opot, part of the Strengthening People-Centered Accessibility, Respect, and Quality (SPARQ) project, attended and participated in the Women Deliver Conference in Vancouver, Canada.Representatives from the SPARQ project's other partners, Jacaranda Health; the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF); and the University of California, Los Angeles also attended and participated in the conference.The forum brought together global researchers and stakeholders to discuss gender equality and the health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women.

On May 31, World Bicycle Relief (WBR) and the Zambian Ministry of General Education hosted a dissemination event at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Lusaka, Zambia.The event covered the initial release of the primary outcomes of the randomized evaluation conducted by IPA Zambia of WBR's bicycle program. IPA Zambia partnered with researchers Nathan Fiala (University of Connecticut), Nishith Prakash (University of Connecticut), Kritika Narula (Yale University), and Ana Garcia-Hernandez (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) to conduct the study which took place in 100 schools across three rural districts of Southern Province, Zambia.