From March 2-3, IPA Kenya organized a workshop In collaboration with the Directorate of Policy, Partnership, and East Africa Community Affairs, Ministry of Education to support the conceptualization of a research coordinating mechanism to advance the use of evidence/data in the formulation and review of policies within the State Department of Early Learning and Basic Education.IPA Kenya is a member of Education Evidence for Action (EE4A) which aims to catalyze the institutionalization of data and evidence-based policymaking within the education sector in Kenya. Policymakers, think tanks, and evidence producers were in attendance.

Pour la version française, voici.  IPA's strategy to reinforce our engagement with local researchers builds onto several initiatives.We have found that our internship and professional research up-skilling events and opportunities have been in high demand from both local stakeholders as well as our institutional partners in Francophone Africa particularly.On March 2nd, 2022, IPA’s research team in Burkina Faso held an impact evaluation research methods workshop at Université Norbert Zongo with thirty doctoral and master's students from their Economics Department.

How much does it cost to send money in Nigeria? It’s not an easy answer. IPA and Inclusion for All conducted an audit study to compare the actual costs of using digital financial services in Nigeria against providers’ officially stated prices and fees.Researchers find that in 38% of cases, customers receive inconsistent pricing information from customer care—worse still, in 12% of cases the customers receive no information.In addition to this, financial transactions conducted by phone failed often and the prices consumers paid sometimes exceeded caps set by the Central Bank of Nigeria.