On July 6th, IPA Peru Country Director, Juan Hernandez-Agramonte, participated in a webinar hosted by 3ie on the experience of MineduLAB, an innovation lab dedicated to generating rigorous evidence around education policy in Peru.The Webinar began with a presentation on the how MineduLAB works with the Head of the Ministry of Education’s Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, followed by presentations from principal investigators of two impact evaluations who will share results on tested innovations.Este seminario en línea (webinar) presentó la experiencia de MineduLAB, un laboratorio de innovación dedicado a la generación de evidencia rigurosa para la política educativa en el Perú.

On July 6th in Manila, IPA and Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (with support from the Citi Foundation) co-hosted a workshop for 40 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.

Innovations for Poverty Action organized a Stakeholders’ forum focusing on sharing learnings from the Soapy Water Handwashing Stations pilot study.The forum was organized within IPA’s strategic objective to organically inform policy and programming with rigorous research findings.The focus of this forum was to: present results from the Soapy Water Handwashing Stations (SWHWS) willingness to pay and school pilot studies, and to share the next steps and scale up plans of the study.The key areas addressed by this pilot study include; the feasibility, durability, and community acceptance of the SWHWS PovuPoa handwashing stations.