On March 18, IPA organized a seminar around the "Humanitarian-Development Nexus in the Sahel" at the Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The event emphasized the need for complementary action by donors, implementing partners, and governments to provide meaningful and lasting impact in the context of fragile states, disasters, or conflict.The Nexus approach is one method aimed to improve global coordination of humanitarian and development actors in response to protracted crises.Drawing from qualitative interviews and analyses in Chad, Niger, and Cameroon, the seminar examined the strengths and weaknesses of the Nexus approach in the Sahel.

On March 13, Juan Manuel Hernandez-Agramonte (IPA Country Director for Peru, Paraguay, and Bolivia) presented findings from an IPA study in progress on the impact of a pension program on senior citizens’ wellbeing in Paraguay to the country's Ministry of Finance.

On March 1, IPA presented findings of an ongoing study titled "Quality of Family Planning Service Delivery in Western Kenya" at a workshop in Kisumu, Kenya.The purpose of the event was to:Produce a rich description of facility-level barriers to family planning in Western KenyaIdentify the barriers that Kenyan women and key informants find most impactfulIdentify and collaborate on solutions that key informants find most impactful and realisticThe workshop provided an opportunity for participants to exchange experience in dealing with these barriers and discuss the challenges faced by providers when offering family planning services.