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From December 14-15, IPA hosted a virtual workshop on locally-grounded research. Opening the event, Professor Leonard Wantchekon (African School of Economics) shared this picture from his primary school in Benin. You can read a summary of the main takeaways from this event in this tweet thread.

FEATURED EVENT

Promoting Locally-Grounded Development Research

More needs to be done to expand the engagement of researchers from low- and middle-income countries in development research. In partnership with the African School of Economics (ASE), the University of Nairobi, and the Université Norbert Zongo, last December IPA hosted a virtual workshop to share experiences and learnings to promote locally-grounded research. The event brought together people from various universities, research and policy institutions, and funding organizations.

Read more on the event page here.

FEATURED BLOG

How IPA Peru is Building a More Inclusive Workforce

By Ronny Condor, Sergio De Marco, Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte, Kelly Montaño, and Jessica Tollette

What Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) mean depends heavily on the local context. After an assessment of our offices in Peru, we learned that most of our staff come from private universities that offer the research training needed for the jobs, but also serve higher-income students. We have taken three low-cost measures that have enabled us to increase the proportion of public universities' staff to 51 percent.

Read the full blog post here.

ANNOUNCEMENT

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BLOG

How Can We Deepen Transparency in Nigeria's Digital Financial Services?
By William Blackmon and Brian Mwesigwa

New Consumer Protection and Competition Policies Are Needed for Kenya’s Digital Credit Market
By William Blackmon, Rafe Mazer, Ninette Mwarania, and Daniel Putman

IPA IN THE NEWS

IPA's Radha Rajkotia in Vox on Effective Giving

IPA Ultra-Poor Graduation Model Research in Stanford Social Innovation Review

The Yale School of Management on Growing Efforts to NORMalize Mask-Wearing

In International Business Times, IPA Evidence on Surgical Mask Use

EVENTS

UPCOMING

Zambia Education Evidence Summit 2021
January 10 | Webinar, Zambia

Socioemotional Skills Development and School-Based Violence Reduction in Central America
January 25 | Webinar, United States

RECENT

SME 11th Working Group Meeting
December 15 | Online, United States

Locally-Grounded Research: Strengthening Partnerships to Advance the Science and Impact of Development
December 14-15 | Virtual Workshop, United States

Pay Me Later: How the Timing of Wage Payments Impacts Worker Financial Health
December 9 | Webinar, United States

Remittance Flows and the COVID-19 Pandemic
December 8 | Webinar, United States

Supporting Women’s Work, Entrepreneurship, and Skills Development in the Time of COVID-19: Evidence and Policy for Bangladesh
December 7 | Webinar, Bangladesh

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