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Team members of IPA's Consumer Protection Research Initiative, Henry Chukwu, Lauren Perlik, Paul Adams, and Brian Mwesigwa, met with Rashida Monguno (center), the Director of the Consumer Protection Department at the Central Bank of Nigeria. © 2023 IPA
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Featured Blog Post
From Research to Reality: Insights from Consumer Protection Workshops in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Paul Adams and Lauren Perlik
As digital financial services have spread across the globe, so have financial scams. In Uganda, for example, IPA research found that 33% of mobile money users were targeted by fraudsters in the past six months. This summer, IPA's Consumer Protection Research Initiative (CPRI) visited Tanzania, Uganda, and Nigeria to share consumer protection research insights and discuss promising practices. Staff from CPRI and IPA country offices worked with regulators, policymakers, local researchers, and consumer rights organizations to identify consumer protection risks in the three countries and develop potential solutions.
Read the full blog post here.
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Announcement
IPA Releases 2022 Annual Report
The year 2022 marked a momentous milestone for IPA as we celebrated our 20th anniversary and reflected on the progress achieved together. Twenty years ago, Dean Karlan saw that global development investments were not sufficiently guided by rigor, data, or evidence, prompting him to found IPA with a vision to create a world with more evidence and less poverty.
The growth and achievements we’ve witnessed since have surpassed even Dean’s initial aspirations. None of us could have foreseen that, two decades later, we would have successfully completed over 900 studies, collaborating with hundreds of researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers. Nor could we have imagined establishing a strong presence in 20 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Today, we are proud to have more than 600 dedicated full-time staff, the majority of whom are from and operate in the very countries where we work.
Read the full report here.
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Featured Study
Radio Program in Tanzania Sparks Positive Shift in Attitudes Towards Early and Forced Marriage
Researchers: Donald Green, Dylan Groves, Constantine Manda, Beatrice Montano, and Bardia Rahmani
In Tanzania, where 36 percent of women marry before the age of 18, and 30 percent have limited say in choosing their life partners, researchers partnered with IPA and the community-based NGO UZIKWASA to explore the impact of the radio program "Tamapendo." This locally-produced radio drama aimed to promote the idea of a girl's right to resist early forced marriage, drawing inspiration from Islamic teachings. The Tamapendo drama reduced acceptance of forced marriage by 9.3 percentage points and early marriage by 4.8 percentage points three weeks after the drama aired. Fifteen months later, researchers continued to see evidence of effects on attitudes towards forced marriage.
Read the full summary here. | Read the full paper here.
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Employment Opportunities
Research Scientist | Any IPA country office location in Africa
Function as an internal principal investigator (PI) or co-PI as part of IPA’s Applied Research & Methods (ARM) group for a range of studies
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Work closely with senior management on IPA's overall communications and marketing strategy while overseeing the global communications team
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Support a wide variety of IPA FWA communications while liaising regularly with other Country Office, global, and sector teams to implement IPA’s overall communications strategy
See all employment opportunities here.
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