On October 21, IPA Philippines presented the results of the first round of the Teacher Needs Assessment online survey to the Department of Education (DepEd) officials.Nassreena Sampaco-Baddiri (Country Director, IPA Philippines) and Karisha Cruz (Policy Associate, IPA Philippines) led the presentation of the key results on access to technology, experience with using technology, remote teaching skills, plans for remote education, and teacher well-being.

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.

As part of the 2020 Financial Inclusion Week, IPA’s Rafe Mazer presented on the webinar “Consumer Protection in the Global South: How to make financial inclusion safer for the world's most vulnerable?” hosted by BRAC.The discussion looked at how to better design consumer protection policies to account for the needs and risks of the more vulnerable, such as welfare transfer recipients.Rafe presented recent IPA research on how data sources such as customer care logs or social media can help flag problems as they arise, as well as recent trends in fraud related to the COVID-19 pandemic.