On April 27, 2021, IPA presented in a joint panel at CIES 2021 titled, "What’s good enough in SEL and Soft Skills Measurement?" Smita Das (Program Manager for IPA's Social Protection Program), Catherine Honeyman (World Learning), Elizabeth Kim (International Youth Foundation), and Allyson Krupar (Save the Children US) shared each organization's soft skill measures and had a conversation discussing tough decisions and tradeoffs they made along the way in developing these measures, including responding to the COVID-19 crisis, ethical concerns, local use of measures, and locally-based development processes.

Several speakers linked to IPA presented at the Partnership for Economic Inclusion and World Bank Group's 2021 Global Learning Event from April 27-29.On April 27, Abhijit Banerjee and a diverse set of panelists kicked off the event in a global broadcast on scaling up economic inclusion through national programs, policies, and strategies. On April 28, Dean Karlan and Patrick Premand spoke on a panel on emerging evidence and Kathleen Beegle moderated a panel about addressing economic inequality among women.And researcher Angela Ofori-Atta presented an updated version of a presentation of her work studying mental health in Ghana.

This webinar was the third webinar in a series presenting innovative research on crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean.If you would like to receive updates via email on future webinars in this series, sign up for the series mailing list here.Gangs like Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, are known for having complete territorial control over urban neighborhoods, with violence and extortion as their main activities.