IPA Philippines conducted workshop entitled "Introduction to Theory of Change" for the Policy Research and Development Division (PRD) of the Department of Education of the Philippines on August 15, 2017.PRD is tasked with promoting evidence-based decision-making and developing evaluation standards across the Department of Education.The workshop focused on how to use the development of a theory of change as a tool for monitoring and evaluation.

Eric Edmonds, principal investigator on the IPA Philippines project Reducing Child Labor in the Philippines, was invited to speak at a public lecture at the US Department of Labor (US DOL) about the project, which is funded by US DOL.

Eric Edmonds, principal investigator, and Peter Srouji, Research Manager for IPA Philippines, were invited to speak at the US Department of Labor's Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking Grantee Midterm Learning Workshop at the US Department of Labor (US DOL) in Washington, D.C.on August 10, 2017.Eric Edmonds' presentation was about parent-child differences in time allocation responses.