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Landmark Report Rollout

Best Bets: Emerging Opportunities for Impact at Scale

In November 2023, IPA launched "Best Bets: Emerging Opportunities for Impact at Scale." 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 on Entrepreneurial Mindset and Soft Skills Training Programs.

Moving forward into 2024, IPA is continuing to disseminate these high-impact results. On January 25, we hosted our second Best Bets webinar focused on Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) to reduce stunting.

Read the blog announcing Best Bets and the full report.

Watch the webinar recordings on soft skills training and reducing stunting.

Featured Blog

Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte: We Want to Equip Our Partners

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.

Blog

The Promise and Harms of Digital Credit: What Does the Evidence Say?
By Arianna Zapanta and Dan Cassara

Tripling Impact: Henry Howard's Journey of Effective Giving with IPA
By Rut Nastiti

Read all blog posts here.

Events

Best Bets Webinar Series: Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements (SQ-LNS) to Reduce Stunting
January 25 | Webinar, United States

Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions: Evidence from Chile
January 22 | Webinar, Chile

See all events here.

IPA in the News

	Vox Covers IPA Evaluation of Universal Basic Income
	IPA's Universal Basic Income Study Featured on NPR

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Gender Policy Specialist | Nairobi, Kenya
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Regional Director, East Africa and Asia | Preference for East Africa or similar timezone
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Security Manager, Africa | Any IPA Africa Country Office location
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Operations Director, Security and Risk | 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 | 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.