IPA's study Mentoring and Experiential Learning for Early Education Student Teachers in Ghana was featured as a "quick fire" talk at UKFIET's conference Learning and Teaching for Sustainable Development: Curriculum, Cognition and Context in Oxford, United Kingdom.Participants discussed how curriculum—what is learned and taught—contributes to education's influence on sustainable development.

On August 30, 2017, IPA Liberia presented preliminary results of the first year of the Partnership Schools for Liberia (PSL) study to the President of Liberia and the Cabinet.Under the Partnership Schools for Liberia (PSL) program, the Government of Liberia delegated management of 93 public schools to eight operators: BRAC, Bridge International Academies, Youth Movement for Collective Action2, More than Me, Omega Schools, Rising Academies, Stella Maris, and Street Child.

Rebecca Rouse, Director of IPA's Financial Inclusion Program, presented along with other leaders in the digital finance field at a webinar sponsered by SEEP.The webinar explored two sides of the debate about how best to close the digital finance gender gap.One side argued that the best way to close the gap is to harness the insights of behavioral economics to design digital finance products that are tailored to women.