From July 15-17, IPA Myanmar moderated a conference titled Myanmar Update 2021: Living with the Pandemic and the Coup hosted by Australian National University.Myanmar Update is a major venue at which to present cutting-edge scholarship on political, social and economic affairs in Myanmar. Now in its third decade, it is one of only two longstanding, regularly held international conferences on the country, and is alone in routinely publishing papers presented at the conference.On July 17, Afke Jager, IPA Myanmar's Country Director, moderated a panel session at the Myanmar Update 2021.

On July 8, 2021, Rebecca Rouse, Director of IPA's Financial Inclusion Program, presented at a roundtable entitled "Scaling innovative solutions and financing mechanisms for city-wide transformation of slums and informal settlements." The roundtable was part of a Tripartite Conference, facilitated by UN Habitat.The conference took stock of progress made in transforming living conditions in informal settlements and slums, examined the lessons learned and facilitated engagement with the business community to help fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals.

On June 30, IPA's Chief Research and Policy Officer Radha Rajkotia moderated the second webinar in the series, Building the Evidence on Forced Displacement: From Research to Policy Making, to discuss findings from the latest research on forced displacement.This webinar focused on a study on the impact of vouchers on displaced people in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.Currently, the evidence on the impact of humanitarian assistance is scarce.