Yorivel, an enumerator with IPA Panama, walked for 6 hours to reach participants in the indigenous community Ngäbe-Bugle for an IPA study. © 2019 Pilar Ouro Paz 

As IPA approaches our 20th year, we are proud of our impact and are grateful for the many new opportunities to continue co-creating policy-relevant studies and work with stakeholders to put evidence into practice to improve lives.

In our 2021 Annual Report, shorter than in previous years, you will find highlights of IPA’s accomplishments, including the launch of our Human Trafficking Research Initiative and interoperable payment systems research on digital financial services. We also continued to engage with decision-makers across the world and grew our Embedded Lab model to seven labs, with many more in the pipeline.

Since 2021, we have continued to responsively pivot our research methodologies and policy engagements to meet the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic; increased our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion; and launched new research agendas and initiatives aimed at protecting the world’s most vulnerable. Our board, staff, partners, and network of researchers worked tirelessly to generate evidence on what does and doesn’t work in poverty alleviation to fuel advocacy for high-impact policy opportunities.

We have seen how our work impacts millions of lives, and we couldn’t do it without you. Thanks to IPA’s strong partnerships, we have been able to continue generating and sharing rigorous evidence to reduce poverty and improve lives.

We need your support to continue to leverage evidence on what works to alleviate poverty, and we have a great opportunity for you to boost your impact. Starting on GivingTuesday (November 29), all donations will be matched 100% by an anonymous donor for a short time. Please consider joining this global giving movement by making a donation—and doubling your impact!

Thank you, ​



Annie Duflo
Executive Director