The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected employment for young people around the world.

On June 23, 2021, IPA hosted a virtual workshop with financial service providers and government officials in Indonesia on the challenges and opportunities in delivering financial services to women entrepreneurs.The event was hosted in partnership with the Millennium Challenge Corporation, Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK), and Bappenas.The event began with a presentation of new IPA survey results of 500 women-owned Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in South Sumatra and North Sulawesi by Kate Glynn-Broderick (IPA, Financial Inclusion) and Willie Blackmon (IPA, Financial Inclusion).

On June 22, IPA presented best practices for measuring gender-based violence (GBV) at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) symposium for a panel on GBV and food security in Lesotho.Ellen Bates-Jeffreys presented on behalf of IPA in a small research breakout session moderated by Abby Thatcher (Stanford University) and oversight from Celine Mazars (Prevention Collaborative).IPA presented the operational learnings from various studies on measuring GBV and discussed the ethical challenges of measuring GBV, the basics of designing survey questions, survey models, and managing staff in the field.