On January 15, 2021, IPA launched our first-ever Consumer Protection Research Initiative Request for Proposals.To help researchers prepare proposals for the February 26th deadline, we hosted two identical Question & Answer sessions on Wednesday, February 10th at 6:00AM Eastern Standard Time for those in Africa, Asia, and Europe, and Thursday, February 11th at 2:00PM Eastern Standard Time for those in the United States.At these sessions, we shared highlights from IPA’s consumer protection surveys in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda. Data for the Kenya survey is available here, and data for the Uganda survey is available here.

This webinar was the first 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.Can intensifying municipal and community governance displace gang rule? Urban criminal groups rule tens to hundreds of million of people worldwide.Despite their prevalence in cities around the world, there is little information available to policymakers about effective strategies to reduce their influence.In Medellín, Colombia, gangs instill a form of order and justice in the communities in which they operate.

On February 4, IPA Zambia and Young 1ove held a meeting with the Directorate of Open and Distance Education (DODE) at the Ministry of General Education.They discussed potential collaboration on the evaluation of a low-tech intervention that provides remedial lessons over the phone to primary school-age children from low-income families.The intervention seeks to address the learning loss from the six-month closure of schools in 2020 and the reduced school contact hours in 2021 imposed by the government’s COVID-19 guidelines.