The Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) co-hosted a Business Conduct and Consumer Protection training program in Kuala Lumpur on 24-27 June 2014.This capacity building workshop brought together 50 policymakers and regulators from 28 countries to discuss experiences and best practices on consumer protection and financial capability.Beniamino Savonitto, Associate Director of the Financial Inclusion Program, led a discussion on policy design and evaluation and reviewed the evidence from randomized evaluations on financial capability and consumer protection.

Andrew Tedesco (Country Director, IPA Sierra Leone), Ben Jaques-Leslie (Research Manager, J-PAL Global), and Tavneet Suri (MIT; Scientific Director, J-PAL Africa; IPA affiliate) presented at a one-day workshop on agriculture, which was organized by IPA and the International Growth Centre (IGC) in Sierra Leone.Prince Kamara (Sierra Leone Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security [MAFFS]) chaired the meeting.Ben and Tavneet presented lessons from evaluations of programs to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.

On June 19th, 2014, the Microcredit Summit Campaign hosted an event to launch its report, Resilience: The State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign.The report tracks microcredit inclusion and highlights strategies and value-added services to extend the reach and impact of MFIs.Aaron Dibner-Dunlap, Program Manager for the Financial Inclusion Program, participated in a panel where he discussed recent evidence on the impact of microcredit and microsavings programs.