IPA's Executive Director Annie Duflo and Francophone West Africa Director Andreas Holzinger met with the President of Togo, Faure Gnassingbé, recently. The meeting was followed by the announcement of a Memorandum of Understanding between IPA and the National Identification Agency, formalizing partnerships begun during the pandemic to work together on using and improving data systems for social programs.
You can see more in the news video (in French) below, and in the "IPA in the News" section further below.
Sending a text message to parents with suggested basic numeracy and literacy activities had an impact on the cognitive skills of preschool students during remote learning due to COVID-19. This intervention generates 0.01 increases (in standard deviation units) on a learning index for every 80 US cents
spent, making it one of the most cost-effective interventions to improve early numeracy skills in Latin America.
