On June 4-5, 2018, IPA and the National Board of Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) hosted the 2018 Ghana Women Entrepreneurship Summit (GWES).The summit convened high-level leaders from the Ghanaian government and from the private and nonprofit sectors for two days of presentations and panels focused on the challenges facing women entrepreneurs in Ghana, and solutions to support them effectively. IPA Ghana staff; country director, Madeleen Husselman; and Research Coordinator, Kym Cole; delivered a joint presentation on the second day of the event, covering the existing evidence on women entrepreneurs in Ghana.

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Mercy Corps, and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) joined forces to bring together researchers, donors, and practitioners in a 1.5-day roundtable to advance a research agenda on financial inclusion and resilience to climate variability.Through the event, key stakeholders took stock of existing evidence, identified important gaps in the evidence, and prioritized open research questions.