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IPA has launched the first-ever fund for experimental consumer protection work in emerging markets. 

This post, written by Laura Chioda (World Bank) with contributions from Paul Gertler (UC Berkeley), Meghan Mahoney (Educate!), Kat Blesie, and Lauren Russell, originally appeared on CEGA's Medium website.

As we close a very eventful 2019, it was refreshing to be able to recollect some highlights of IPA’s policy engagement around the world and reflect on what we’ve learned and where we’re going next when it comes to sharing evidence strategically.

There is very little evidence on what works for forcibly displaced and host community populations. IPA is responding to this gap by launching a new Humanitarian and Forced Displacement Initiative.

As IPA partners in the public sector to equip governments to leverage evidence for decision-making, we have had an intimate view of how this has played out.

It's that time of year, when we help you survive upcoming travel delays, or surreptitiously listen to something else on your discreet bluetooth earbud while nodding along with Uncle Pete explaining to you things you didn't know about reinsurance (...

Partnering with governments on research projects is a great way to ensure buy-in to rigorous research from policymakers, but it comes with a unique challenge: those policymakers can change due to political transition or staff turnover in the middle...

IPA’s ability to collect high-quality data rests on the quality of our dedicated staff in the field. Behind every number, every result, is a painstaking (often years-long) process that involves traveling, searching, interviewing, entering, storing (...

IPA is pleased to welcome three new staffers to lead new global-level initiatives.

By Shahana Hirji and Cynthia Bosumtwi-Sam Scaling up an effective solution is often seen as the holy grail of the evidence movement—but figuring out how to get from a proof of concept to implementation at scale by a government is often an elusive...

Since 2016, the Airbel Center at the International Rescue Committee and Innovations for Poverty Action have been designing the Modern Man Challenge. The research team is now conducting a full impact evaluation of the program.

J-PAL and the American Economic Association (AEA) have been working together over the past year to create digital object identifiers, or DOIs, for each trial registered in the AEA Registry for Randomized Controlled Trials. We are happy to announce...

In March of this year, I joined IPA as its Chief Research and Policy Officer, a relatively new role that was created, in short, to help IPA fulfill its mission of creating a world with more evidence and less poverty. Over the months of first...

In March 2018, the Journal of Development Economics (JDE) began piloting Pre-results Review track (also referred to as “registered reports” in other disciplines) in collaboration with the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (...

Since joining IPA as its first chief research and methods officer, I've been spending a lot of time assessing the quality of every aspect of our research and helping smart people design the next generation of evaluation research methods.

In May, a panel with Secretaries of Security of Colombia’s three largest cities—Bogotá, Cali, and Medellín—was the first to bring the Secretaries together since their positions were created. What were the takeaways?

While the Modern Man Challenge has been prototyped, tested, and improved in several rounds prior to a randomized control trial that is currently running, earlier this year we also decided to test a variation of the challenge through multiple...

What's it like to have your program studied with an RCT? IPA spoke with our partner Samasource about the opportunities and challenges of partnering on an evaluation.