What are the up-and-coming innovations with the potential to improve lives at scale? Our sector teams have thoroughly reviewed the evidence and today we’re sharing a new report highlighting 14 promising interventions: “Best Bets: Emerging Opportunities for Impact at Scale”: bit.ly/bestbetsipa #BestBetsIPA #EmergingInnovations
Innovations for Poverty Action
Research Services
Washington, District of Columbia 84,207 followers
We discover and promote effective solutions to global poverty problems.
About us
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a research and policy non-profit that discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty problems. IPA brings together researchers and decision-makers to design, rigorously evaluate, and refine these solutions and their applications, ensuring that the evidence created is used to improve the lives of the world’s poor.
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http://www.poverty-action.org
External link for Innovations for Poverty Action
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- Research Services
- Company size
- 501-1,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2002
- Specialties
- Research, Policy, International Development, Economics, Data, RCTs, Randomized Evaluations, and Evidence-based decisionmaking
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1701 Rhode Island Ave NW
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Washington, District of Columbia 20036, US
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228 Park Ave S
Suite 53674
New York, New York 10003, US
Employees at Innovations for Poverty Action
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IPA is looking for an expert to conduct a comprehensive #analysis of the competition and #regulatory landscape for digital financial services (#DFS) in Tanzania. This work is part of IPA’s larger program on investigating the cost drivers of DFS in the country, called the Tanzania Affordable Digital Finance Research Initiative (TADFRI). Proposals are due Aug. 2, 2024, at 5PM EDT. To learn more, visit: bit.ly/rfpfip008 #Finclusion #RequestforProposals #Consulting
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Malnutrition affects more than 148 million children worldwide, 24 percent of whom live in #WestAfrica. Chronic malnutrition can lead to irreversible cognitive and motor development issues. Research in Burkina Faso found that a nutrition-focused livelihoods program reduced extreme poverty by 29 percent, reduced #ChildMalnutrition by 33 percent, and significantly improved cognitive and motor skills of children born during the program. Learn more about the impact evaluation conducted by #IPABurkinaFaso with Terre des hommes - Burkina Faso, ACTION CONTRE LA FAIM and researchers Adrien Bougen (Santa Clara University) and Andrew Dillon (Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management): bit.ly/bf11968
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Recognizing the potential of #childcare to benefit children, their primary caregivers, and entire households, IPA reviewed ten randomized evaluations of childcare interventions in low- and middle-income countries. We focused on studies that reported outcomes for both children and primary caregivers. The review also incorporates insights from quasi-experimental and other studies to provide context and complement the experimental research. Childcare can lead to a 'triple social and economic dividend' by improving early childhood development, increasing women's participation in the labor market, and creating new jobs and businesses. Read the review by Sarah Kabay, Brianda Romero Castelán and Rebecca Smith: bit.ly/briefchildcare Childcare for women’s economic empowerment and child development is one of #BestBetsIPA: bit.ly/bestbetsipa
A Multigenerational Perspective on Childcare: A Review of Rigorous Research in Low-and Middle-Income Countries | IPA
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IPA, in partnership with Kyambogo University, is organizing a seminar for early career #researchers from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) focusing on grant proposal writing. Participants will gain essential technical skills to create compelling and successful grant proposals. Learn more to register: bit.ly/ug0726 #GrantWriting #PhDs #Research
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IPA Philippines and International Rice Research Institute IRRI Education conducted a 4-day Introductory Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Capacity Building Program in Laguna, Philippines. Through this knowledge-sharing and training event, participants learned about: ✅ the importance of M&E in evidence-based policymaking and programming; ✅ the relationship between agricultural development, poverty alleviation, and evidence-based policy and programs; ✅ practical skills and tools for conducting effective M&E in agricultural projects; ✅ areas for collaboration among organizations working towards sustainable agricultural development. Thanks to all attendees, presenters, and speakers from CGIAR, UN Women Asia and the Pacific, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and University of the Philippines Los Baños for their contributions to the success of the event! IPA looks forward to fostering a sustainable #AgriculturalDevelopment ecosystem with our partners. Learn more about the event: bit.ly/ipairri2024 #MoreEvidenceLessPoverty #AgriculturalDevelopment #MonitoringandEvaluation
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What happens to a #MobileMoney market when new agents enter? Will consumer protection issues like trust and transparency improve? Francis Annan and Chi Man Cheung discuss new #ConsumerProtection research that will try to answer these questions. Read more here➡️bit.ly/dfsmmmgh #IPAGhana #Finclusion #MoreEvidenceLessPoverty
Unlocking the Potential of Competition: Insights from Ghana's Mobile Money Market | IPA
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Research in #Ghana found that students in public schools who received #TargetedInstruction boosted their test scores by 27% of a grade level, suggesting significant promise for improving learning outcomes within existing school systems on a large scale. Read more about this impact evaluation conducted by IPA Ghana in collaboration with Ghana Education Service, Ghana National Association of Teachers, Youth Employment Agency (YEA) Ghana, with researchers Annie Duflo, Jessica Kiessel and & Adrienne Lucas: bit.ly/tcaiedugh #IPAGhana #Education #MoreEvidenceLessPoverty
Evaluating the Teacher Community Assistant Initiative in Ghana | IPA
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In #Ghana, improved monitoring and support by school principals and supervisors significantly increased the implementation of #DifferentiatedInstruction where students are taught at their level of learning in classrooms. In turn, student test scores jumped by one-third of a school year. Read more about this study and its promising results, conducted by IPA Ghana in collaboration with the Ghana Ministry of Education, UNICEF and researchers Sabrin Beg, Anne Fitzpatrick and Adrienne Lucas: bit.ly/ghdi1821 #IPAGhana #Education #MoreEvidenceLessPoverty
The Importance of Management Support for Teacher-Led Targeted Instruction in Ghana | IPA
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During times of crisis, we often see spikes in individual-level violence, such as gender-based #violence, intimate partner violence, and violence against children. Though protection is a key focus of #humanitarian actors, there is limited evidence on what programs and policies are actually working to prevent and reduce violence against women, adolescents, and children in conflict-affected settings. IPA’s new #PolicyBrief summarizes the existing evidence base on strategies to prevent and mitigate individual-level violence, drawing important lessons for policymakers and practitioners. The featured studies highlight how to combine programs to reduce IPV, target populations, and the importance of community networks and also highlights questions that remain unanswered. Read more to find out about the key lessons: bit.ly/hpibrief2024 IPA and Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)'s Humanitarian Protection Initiative (#HPI) aims to generate rigorous evidence to inform policies and programs that protect conflict-affected populations from harm and mitigate the effects of conflict where harm has occurred. With generous support by Department for International Development (DFID) from the UK government, HPI will foster partnerships for and fund randomized impact evaluations to inform the design of policies and programs that protect conflict-affected populations from violence, coercion, and deliberate deprivation, and ensure their dignity, safety and respect for their rights. Learn more about HPI: bit.ly/ipahpi
Preventing Individual-Level Violence in Conflict Settings | IPA