On June 14, IPA presented the results from the Digital Cash Transfer Monitoring Study to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Social Amelioration Program (SAP—emergency subsidy) Small Working Group.IPA, in collaboration with the DSWD and the World Bank, conducted a phone survey of SAP beneficiaries to understand beneficiary experience with digital G2P payment delivery through financial service providers.This second presentation to DSWD includes undersecretaries, assistant secretaries, and directors of the Department.Dr.Nassreena Sampaco-Baddiri (Country Director, IPA Philippines) and Dr.

On June 3, Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP) hosted a webinar on working with NGOs that are collaborating with governments in Africa to scale and sustain innovative and evidence-based education programs.Meghan Mahoney, Director of Monitoring and Evaluation at CoP, highlighted Educate!'s experience tracking the scale and institutionalization of a skills-based education model in Rwanda and the sustainability framework she uses to guide this M&E work.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, tax revenues are equivalent to 7.5% of GDP.This stands in stark contrast to higher-income countries, in which tax revenues represent an average of 34% of GDP and generate billions of dollars for essential government services.The challenges of domestic resource mobilization are complex and involve factors related to state capacity for tax collection and delivery of public services, the prevalence of informal economies, and firms’ and citizens’ knowledge and beliefs about paying taxes.