From December 15-19, IPA conducted a training for government representatives working on social protection programs in Guyana.At the invitation of the Ministry of Finance, Dean Karlan, Nathanael Goldberg, and Kelsey Wright presented the Graduation Model and best practices for monitoring and evaluation.

IPA Peru’s country office, along with IPA-affiliated researcher Renard Sexton, presented the preliminary results of the Accountability and Transparency in the Extractive Industries of Peru project to the International Finance Corporation (IFC), NGOs, and the Office of Counseling on Socio-Environmental Issues of the Ministry of Environment.

On December 2, Living Goods organized a stakeholder meeting in Kampala to disseminate the findings of IPA’s Community Health Delivery study.The project’s principal researcher, Jakob Svensson (IIES, Stockholm University and Center for Economic Research) presented the study’s findings, titled “The Effect of a Micro-Entrepreneur Based Community Health Delivery Programme on Under Five Mortality.” Event attendees included representatives from the Ugandan Ministry of Health, IPA, BRAC Uganda, UNICEF, Marie Stopes Uganda, CARE, Jhpiego, and FHI 360, as well as Ugandan local district leaders. The event included a panel discussion on achieving high-impact community health care.The panel was moderated by Dr.