Random Update | August 2021
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IPA Random Update
LATEST RESEARCH & NEWS
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FEATURED STUDY
The Impact of a Nutrition-Focused Livelihoods Program on Child Nutrition in Burkina Faso
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Researchers: Adrien Bouguen and Andrew Dillon
Almost half of all deaths of children under five years of age are attributable to malnutrition, and despite the decline in numbers, progress continues to be very slow. In Burkina Faso researchers evaluated whether a nutrition-focused livelihoods program consisting of a cash transfer, productive asset, and nutrition intervention can impact child nutrition, household income, and assets. After two years, the program successfully reduced chronic malnutrition by about a third and increased the productive assets of participants. When components of the program were implemented individually, no statistically significant impacts were observed.
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NEW ARTICLE
Putting Evidence to Good Use
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By Heidi McAnnally-Linz, Bethany Park, and Radha Rajkotia
In the Stanford Social Innovation Review, IPA's Heidi McAnnally-Linz, Bethany Park, and Radha Rajkotia argue that generating research is only half the battle and that in the evidence-informed development community, the translation of research to evidence use is both unstructured and under-resourced. To correct this, they argue that funders and funding recipients need to commit to a full evidence-to-policy cycle, in which partners have a plan for evidence use and are held accountable to that outcome. They share experiences from IPA's strategy and projects across contexts of the what, who, and how of evidence use, aiming to illustrate that evidence-to-policy work can be less about the production of papers, and more about building meaningful partnerships that ground critical decisions in evidence.
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NEW RESULTS
Using Online Citizen Reports to Reduce Election Irregularities in Colombia
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Researchers: Natalia Garbiras-Díaz and Mateo Montenegro
Electoral irregularities—illegal activities seeking to influence elections—often threaten democratic institutions in low- and middle-income countries. In Colombia, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to measure the impact of a Facebook campaign that encouraged citizens to report irregularities in a mayoral election to a local NGO. The campaign increased the number of reports people submitted and reduced the number of observed irregularities. This light-touch intervention was more cost-effective than other traditionally-used monitoring efforts that have cost-effectiveness data.
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BLOG
RECOVR Roundup Vol. 23: Social Protection in the Time of COVID-19
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By Luciana Debenedetti, Jeffrey Mosenkis, and Rachel Strohm
RECOVR Roundup Vol. 22: Social Protection in the Time of COVID-19
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By Luciana Debenedetti, Jeffrey Mosenkis, and Rachel Strohm
IPA IN THE NEWS
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NPR on What the U.S. Could Learn from Mask-Wearing Research in Bangladesh
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The Guardian on the Urgency of Responding to Viral Diseases in Low-Income Countries
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In news24, the Impact of COVID-19 on Zambia's Elections
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myRepublica Covers the Nepal Mask Campaign
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GovInsider Interviews Togo Minister on Using Tech to Target Aid
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EVENTS
UPCOMING
Ghana National Education Week: Evidence Summit 2021
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September 28-30 | Conference, Ghana
Zambia Education Evidence Summit 2021
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September (date TBD) | Webinar, Zambia
RECENT
Government to People Payment Digitization: Understanding Beneficiaries’ Experiences
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July 28 | Webinar, Bangladesh
IPA Moderates Myanmar Update 2021: Living with the Pandemic and the Coup
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July 15-17 | Webinar, Myanmar
Scaling Innovative Solutions and Financing Mechanisms for City-Wide Transformation of Slums and Informal Settlements
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July 8 | Webinar, United States
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