The first steering committee meeting governing the Urban Drinking Water and Health Outcomes study was held.Participants included representatives from the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, the Ghana Health Service, and the Ghana Standard Authority, among others.In partnership with the Ghana School of Public Health and the University of Southampton, IPA is wrapping up a small-scale pilot on the impact of subsidized sachet water on child health in urban areas, which will inform a full scale trial planned for 2016–2018.The steering committee will govern the design and implementation of that full trial.

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.