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.

On March 18, IPA and J-PAL co-organized a closed-door roundtable discussion in Kenya, as inputs to the Population Policy for National Development, which is currently being revised.The event was co-hosted with the National Council for Population Development, the agency spearheading the policy revisions and that will have oversight over its implementation.

On March 17, IPA Côte d’Ivoire shared the insights of the education section of the second wave of the RECOVR survey.This two-hour session was hosted by M.Raoul Koné (Deputy Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Education of Côte d’Ivoire).Loïc Watine (Director of the Right-Fit Evidence Unit, IPA) presented key findings related to the various distance education programs that had been put in place during and after the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, as well as the relevant policy implications.