John,

As we approach the giving season, we reflect on the impact of our recent policy successes in terms of actual lives improved. Together with our partners, we are expecting scale-ups of IPA’s evidence-based programs to reach approximately 18 million people.

An IPA-implemented evaluation found that a faith-based counseling program in Uganda reduced Intimate Partner Violence by 12 percent and balanced power within relationships. Following the successful pilot, IPA began working with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), World Vision, and the Church of Uganda to scale the intervention nationally. We are currently providing technical assistance to the Church of Uganda to equip them to offer the program to couples within its 11 million member congregation.

In Ghana—where IPA has set up an embedded lab within the Ministry of Education and co-created over half a dozen rigorous evaluations through over a decade of partnership—four million children are currently slated to participate in two evidence-based pedagogy programs supported by IPA’s technical assistance.

A teacher-recruitment program influenced by IPA’s research on pay for performance will reach 2.5 million learners, improving teaching quality in Rwanda and growing out of IPA’s partnership with Rwanda’s Basic Education Board (REB), Ministry of Education and gui2de at Georgetown University.

Additionally, more than 500,000 students will be impacted by IPA-supported, evidence-informed programs on Teaching at the Right Level in Zambia and Côte d’Ivoire.

And that is by no means exhaustive. IPA is supporting six additional scale-ups on track to directly reach almost 40 thousand people in Liberia, Mexico, Peru, and Zambia, aiming to improve education outcomes after school closures, children’s vaccinations, stunting prevention, and procedural justice.

Our policy team works tirelessly to ensure that the strong evidence we create is used to improve lives around the world. So much groundwork goes into building these partnerships, but the impact is clear. The expanded interest in our embedded lab model—with twelve new labs in the pipeline—shows we’re on the right track.