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.

This webinar is part of IPA's RECOVR Webinar Series: Bringing Evidence to COVID-19 Policy Responses in the Global South.Together with our partners, we are using this series to rapidly share what we are learning with the policy and research community to support evidence-informed response efforts.