In partnership with J-PAL Southeast Asia, IPA Philippines conducted a Measurement and Survey Design Workshop for the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)'s Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) on May 18-19, 2017.The workshop was attended by ten participants and held at the DSWD Complex in Quezon City, Philippines.

Appropriate consumer protection is becoming ever more central to ensuring the financial wellbeing of the poor.Ensuring that consumers are able to select and use financial products to their best advantage is a key component of financial inclusion.Without a robust consumer protection framework, even the most educated and capable consumer is likely to have difficulty making prudent financial choices.It is vital that policies aiming to protect consumers account for lessons from behavioral economics and be subject to testing before they are nationally scaled.

On Thursday, May 11, 2017, IPA, along with the Millennium Challenge Corporation and Government of Mongolia, hosted a local stakeholder workshop for the final results of the evaluation of Millennium Challenge Corporation's Vocational Education Training Project in Mongolia.This event was held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and included 60 attendees from the Government of Mongolia and donor community working on vocational education in Mongolia.