From July 25-29, Dylan Ramshaw (Country Director) and Juan Hernández-Agramonte (Deputy Country Director) participated in a week-long workshop organized by the Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

On July 20th in Mumbai, IPA, IFMR LEAD, and CAFRAL (with support from the Citi Foundation) co-hosted a workshop for 50 high- and mid-level policymakers and financial service providers interested in learning how rigorous evidence can help them better serve their customers.During the one-day event, attendees engaged in a series of discussions that encouraged them to think about how recent financial inclusion evidence applies to their institutions and how RCTs can be useful for decision-making.

On July 17th, IPA, the Bangladesh Government's Access to Information Programme (a2i), and the UNDP held a joint seminar at the office of the Prime minister, 'Creating innovation does not guarantee adoption: Using Research to Design Smart Public Policy'. The purpose of the seminar was to understand how research can enrich innovations in order to make them more adaptable by the citizens and government.The a2i Programme, UNDP Bangladesh and IPA are striving to make governments and nations more innovative and they understand that research and innovation go hand in hand.