The Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB) and the District of Gicumbi hosted a launch event to celebrate the successful implementation of a pilot phase of the Water Tanks Loan Project in Nyankenke, a sector in Gicumbi district.IPA Rwanda and J-PAL Africa’s policy teams have been working together to support the RAB in its implementation of the pilot project.Speakers at the event included Gicumbi's mayor and RAB's Director of Animal Production.

Suleiman Asman (Country Director, IPA Kenya) presented on IPA's work in Kenya at an Impact Evaluation Training Workshop hosted by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and the World Bank’s Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF) from May 5–8.The workshop was designed for faculty members, researchers, and graduate students from universities and research institutes interested in strengthening their skills in designing impact evaluations, analyzing the findings using the latest econometric methods, and teaching these methods to university students.Numerous IPA partners were also in attendance.

IPA Burkina Faso presented to the Commission for Reforms in Burkina Faso.The commission is in charge of proposing reforms to the government before the elections in October 2015. Nicoló Tomaselli, IPA Burkina Faso’s Country Representative, Presented proposals for the government to implement programs modeled on our successful school-based deworming and teaching at the level of the child evaluations.The commission is including both proposals in their Final Commission Report to the Burkinabe government, noting their satisfaction with IPA’s focus on scientific evidence-based decision-making.