On April 25, 2017, IPA Myanmar Senior Research Associate Areum Han presented at a masterclass on agribusiness research.The masterclass was organized by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and co-facilitated by Helvetas Vietnam, and was attended by Burmese professionals in the agribusiness sector.Ms.Han presented a brief introduction of RCTs and impact evaluation, and provided an overview of IPA’s multiple projects on Women’s Economic Empowerment through Financial Inclusion.

From April 10-14, 2017, IPA Uganda participated in CARE’s Women Digital Sub-Wallets workshop.The e-wallet is a new service provided by PostBank, a well-known bank in Uganda which has previously been a branch bank.The e-wallet service allows women to access formal bank accounts through mobile technology and have pre-labeled digital subwallets to categorize their savings, such as school fees and healthcare. The four-day workshop aimed to share and review findings from the pilot study and forge a way forward to a scale-up of the project.

IPA researcher Professor Pascaline Dupas presented the results of her research project on the impact of free secondary education in Ghana.Around 80 attendees (mostly researchers and students) came to this event and were able to discuss these results with her.