Francis Meyo, Policy Coordinator for IPA Kenya, will be presenting on the Rural Electric Power Project (REPP) and how that informs the Kenyan Government’s Last Mile Connectivity Project to a gathering of major East African utilities providers and the Kenyan Ministry of Energy and Petroleum.The goal of the event is to hear from industry leaders and decision-makers to source innovative solutions to energy supply problems in Eastern Africa.Attendees will include government representatives, large power users, investors, and regulators.You can view an interview from the event with Francis Meyo here.

Innovations for Poverty Action Zambia (IPA) partnered with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab for Africa (J-PAL) and the University of Zambia (UNZA) to hold a four day impact evaluation course from 24-27 August 2015.The course included two streams: a policymaker stream and a researcher stream.The researcher stream focused on the benefits and methods of randomisation, choosing an appropriate sample size, and common threats and pitfalls to the validity of experiments.

The IPA Francophone West Africa team organized a seminar at the University of Ouagadougou.Some 40 attendants actively participated to the meeting and speakers were challenged with interesting questions.Research Associate Alassane Koulibaly moderated the seminar with great professionalism.Senior Research Associate Estelle Plat presented preliminary results from the Sorghum Tech Adoption study, Country Director Nicoló Tomaselli presented results from the Agricultural Lending study in Mali and Adrien Pawlik discussed baseline data collected for the Ouaga Sanitation experiment.