Hi John,

This past year, I often felt a mix of hope and despair: hope for those of us with access to vaccines and a beginning of the return to normalcy—but despair for many throughout the world where the pandemic continues to ravage health systems, families, communities, and livelihoods.

I have been deeply proud that IPA is making meaningful contributions to the crisis response, that we have made progress in our efforts to bring more diversity to IPA and to our field, and that we continue to innovate and strengthen our research quality. I am also proud of how we have grown and strengthened in-country policy engagement—and with it our ability to expand the use of evidence not only at the organizational level but also at the government level to improve lives.

In our 2020-2021 Annual Report, you will find highlights of IPA’s accomplishments from the past year, including how we scaled up an approach to increase mask-wearing, established a new Human Trafficking Research Initiative, and expanded our embedded labs work.

This year, more than ever before, we have seen how our work can save lives, and we couldn’t do any of it without you. It is thanks to IPA’s strong partnerships that we have been able to continue generating and sharing rigorous evidence to reduce poverty and improve lives.

Thank you,



Annie Duflo
Executive Director