El 25 de noviembre del 2017, Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte, Director Nacional de IPA - Perú, Bolivia y Paraguay, dio una TED Talk en TEDxTukuy en Lima.El vídeo de TED Talk fue lanzado este año y se puede ver a continuación.Juan enfocó su charla en cómo el gobierno puede lograr un gran impacto al asociarse con académicos para proponer políticas innovadoras que se prueben a través de evaluaciones de impacto experimentales.Juan presentó dos estudios de casos exitosos de innovación política que se llevaron a cabo con el Ministerio de Educación del Perú.

On November 25, 2017, Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte, IPA Country Director for Perú, Bolivia, and Paraguay, gave a TED Talk at TedxTukuy in Lima.The video of the TED Talk was recently released this year and can be viewed below. Juan focused his talk on how government can achieve high impact by partnering with academics to propose innovative policies that are tested using randomized controlled trials.He presented two successful case studies of policy innovation that were conducted with the Peruvian Ministry of Education.Both interventions were scaled up to national policies to improve the lives of millions of students.The first innovation was conducted with the support from the U.S.

The Vision 2030 Delivery Secretariat and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) organized a one-day policy forum that focused on disseminating evidence from research studies, relevant policy lessons, and innovations in health, water and sanitation.The forum was organized within the policy framework of the national government through the Ministry of Health, Vision 2030 (Economic and Social pillars) and the health priorities of the county governments.Bringing together local and global researchers, policymakers, donors, and implementers, the forum aimed to discuss solutions that work in improving the Kenyan health and WASH sector with the third Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 3) in mind.