From March 19-21, 2017, IPA Bangladesh organized a three-day executive course on Evidence-Based Policymaking and Program Design for 29 stakeholders in Bangladesh.Many government officials participated in the training, including the Director General of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division, Ministry of Planning; the Director and Deputy Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office; and the Domain Specialist (Innovation Training) of the Capacity Development Team of the Government’s Access to Information (a2i) Programme.Representatives from UNDP and various organizations in Cambodia and Bangladesh also attended.

On March 17, 2017, IPA Founder Dean Karlan was the keynote speaker at a USAID webinar to discuss the preliminary results of an ongoing impact evaluation on belief systems and poverty alleviation in the Philippines.

IPA Founder Dean Karlan presented IPA’s Graduation of the Ultra Poor study to Yasuyuki Sawada, Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank, as well as other ADB staff and representatives from the Department of Social Welfare and Development.