Both Innovations for Poverty Action and CEGA aim to support high quality, transparent, reproducible research.The research support staff at both organizations are typically tasked with preparing data and code for publication.However, key steps for preparing data and code take place as early as the study design phase as well as in the data collection process.We have several objectives for this workshop:Familiarize participants with the importance of reproducible research and research transparency (both for their own work as well as from a public good perspective).Present concrete guidance and tools e.g.

UPDATE: You can find a recording of the webinar here, and you can download a PDF of the presentation slides below.From noon to 1:30pm on Tuesday, March 1st, Dean Karlan conducted a webinar on barriers to financial inclusion.The event is one of a series of research seminars organized by the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA), an association of central banks and regulatory bodies in Latin America and the Caribbean.

On March 1st, IPA and PATH organized a Handwashing Innovation Summit bringing together two dozen participants including representatives of many organizations working on handwashing technologies such as the Water and Sanitation Project, Safe Water and Aids project, Kenya Water for Health organization and PATH.The discussion focused on existing evidence on waste water collection and use of hand sanitizer as opposed to soap and water.