View Draft Agenda The private sector is an important part of the health system in Kenya, with over half of all health facilities being privately owned.

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.