Workshop on Phase One Implementation of Financial Education through SACCOs Program: Overview, Lessons Learned, and Impact EvaluationOn March 8, 2017, IPA Rwanda—in partnership with the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN), the World Bank, and the Rwanda Institute for Cooperatives, Entrepreneurship and Microfinance (RICEM)—organized a workshop to share achievements and lessons learned in implementing Phase One of the Financial Education through Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs) Program.Participants also discussed IPA’s ongoing impact evaluation of the same program.

On March 3rd, as part of the implementation of its program of activities for the year 2017, with the support of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Rebuse (Network of Burkinabe Monitoring and Evaluation workers), IPA Burkina Faso participated in a promotional day for Emerging Evaluators in Burkina Faso.

IPA Philippines held a two-day event on March 1-2, 2017 with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), the implementing partner for an impact evaluation of the Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES).On the first day, IPA provided a capacity-building workshop on Introduction to Impact Evaluation to program-concerned staff at the local, regional, and national levels.