Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is working with local governments, leading academics and NGOs on the ground to conduct some of the first rigorous randomized evaluations of projects focused on peace-building and the unique set of challenges facing post-conflict and fragile states. With a broad range of contexts in need of evidence, IPA aims to identify programs that work both in response to uniquely challenging post-conflict contexts as well as programs that address issues more widespread across developing economies. IPA is currently conducting evaluations in Liberia, Sierra Leone, northern Uganda and Cote d’Ivoire which address a range of issues including youth employment, intimate partner violence, ex-combatant reintegration, community driven development and female entrepreneurship. The priority sectors of the Post Conflict Recovery and Fragile States Initiative are Education, Youth Employment, and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration.
