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Landmark Report Rollout
Best Bets: Emerging Opportunities for Impact at Scale
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In November 2023, IPA launched "Best Bets: Emerging Opportunities for Impact at Scale
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." Best Bets highlights 14 innovations that IPA’s experts believe offer the most opportunity for transformative investment to catalyze impact through research and partnerships. These innovations are “Best Bets” because they have enough evidence behind them to give us confidence in their efficacy, but need additional investment in research and policy work to help take them to scale. Shortly after the launch, IPA hosted our first Best Bets webinar
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on Entrepreneurial Mindset and Soft Skills Training Programs
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Moving forward into 2024, IPA is continuing to disseminate these high-impact results. On January 25, we hosted our second Best Bets webinar
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focused on Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) to reduce stunting
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Read the blog
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announcing Best Bets and the full report
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Watch the webinar recordings on soft skills training
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and reducing stunting
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Featured Blog
Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte: We Want to Equip Our Partners
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The latest edition of our People of IPA blog series spotlights Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte. Juan got his start at IPA thirteen years ago as an intern. Now, he leads IPA’s Embedded Evidence Labs program, after previously serving as Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean.
“I have to say that the experience has been amazing,” he says. “I’ve done many things with IPA, from visiting people participating in social protection programs in the most remote areas of the Andes mountains to understand their needs to working with policymakers in Central America and helping them with scaling up and education programs.”
Read the full blog here.
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Blog
The Promise and Harms of Digital Credit: What Does the Evidence Say?
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By Arianna Zapanta and Dan Cassara
Tripling Impact: Henry Howard's Journey of Effective Giving with IPA
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By Rut Nastiti
Read all blog posts here.
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Events
Best Bets Webinar Series: Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements (SQ-LNS) to Reduce Stunting
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January 25 | Webinar, United States
Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions: Evidence from Chile
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January 22 | Webinar, Chile
See all events here.
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IPA in the News
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Vox Covers IPA Evaluation of Universal Basic Income
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IPA's Universal Basic Income Study Featured on NPR
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Employment Opportunities
Gender Policy Specialist
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| Nairobi, Kenya
Lead IPA’s evidence-based policy and practice impact and influence strategy, working with a portfolio of countries in East Africa that primarily focus on gender and intimate partner violence
Director of Data Science
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| Flexible; preference for Colombia, Mexico, Kenya, or the Philippines
Build a data science business and operational function to tackle a range of global poverty problems
Regional Director, East Africa and Asia
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| Preference for East Africa or similar timezone
Lead IPA’s programs in East Africa and Asia, directly supporting the programmatic, operational, and financial functions of Country Offices in both regions
Security Manager, Africa
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| Any IPA Africa Country Office location
Lead the overall management and implementation of IPA's security policies at the regional level
Operations Director, Security and Risk
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| Flexible; any location IPA is registered
Strengthening and supporting the safety and security, safeguarding and risk management of IPA's global network of Country Offices
(Associate) Policy Manager
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| Flexible; any location IPA is registered in West Africa or the U.S.
Support the execution of IPA’s evidence-based policy and practice impact and influence strategy, working with a portfolio of countries in West Africa
See all employment opportunities here
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