This workshop was organized by the Society for International Development Washington Chapter.Advancing women’s digital connectivity is key to promoting their empowerment in an increasingly digital world, but a digital divide is reinforcing, and even exacerbating, existing socioeconomic gaps between men and women.In this 3-person panel, IPA's Financial Inclusion Program Director, Rebecca Rouse reviewed preliminary results from an IPA study in the Dominican Republic looking at how women-specific credit scoring can be used to improve lending outcomes for low-income women borrowers.

Development Impact West Africa (DIWA), a partnership between the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and the Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), organized an impact evaluation training and matchmaking workshop in Accra, Ghana.This three-day workshop convened U.S.and Ghanaian academics and Ghanaian policymakers to seek three-way research collaborations on priority questions.

The Novartis Access Program conducted workshops at the county level aimed at sharing the preliminary study results with the county health officials and to engage them in discussions that facilitated the interpretation and contextualization of the study findings.These workshops targeted eight counties of Kenya where the study was conducted i.e.