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.

On July 15th, Nassreena Sampaco-Baddiri, Country Director for IPA Philippines, was a speaker and panel member at the League of Corporate Foundations (LCF) 20th Anniversary and 2016 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Expo Conference held at the Makati Shangri-La Hotel, Philippines.

On July 14 and 15, 2016, IPA Peru, J-PAL LAC, the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations (MIMP) and the National Program against Domestic and Sexual Violence (PNCVFS) of the MIMP organized the Workshop "Evidence-based intervention design" as part of the Project "Institutionalization of the use and generation of evidence for the improvement of the interventions of the PCNVFS of the MIMP "in Lima, Peru. The project seeks to institutionalize the use and generation of rigorous evidence in policy decision-making at the PNCFS and the MIMP.