Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a research and policy nonprofit 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. In recent decades, trillions of dollars have been spent on programs designed to reduce global poverty, but clear evidence on which programs succeed is rare, and when evidence does exist, decision-makers often do not know about it. IPA exists to bring together leading researchers and these decision-makers to ensure that the evidence we create leads to tangible impact on the world. Since our founding in 2002, IPA has worked with over 600 leading academics to conduct over 830 evaluations in 51 countries. This research has informed hundreds of successful programs that now impact millions of individuals worldwide.

Primary Functions

• Program/Project Implementation
• Research - project evaluation

Secondary Functions

• Capacity building/Technical assistance
• Funding
• Networking/Convening

Geographic Scope

• Global / regional

Attainment

• Post-secondary
• Primary completion
• Primary enrollment
• Primary to secondary transition
• Secondary completion

Other

• Early childhood development
• Transition from school to work

Other skills

• Financial literacy
• Life skills/sexuality education
• Rights/empowerment education
• Social and emotional learning
• Vocational training

Quality

• School quality

Skills

• Literacy
• Numeracy
• STEM

Website

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)

Headquarters location(s)

• New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Office location(s)

• Bangladesh
• Bolivia, Plurinational State of
• Burkina Faso
• Colombia
• Côte d'Ivoire
• Dominican Republic
• Ghana
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mexico
• Myanmar
• Nigeria
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Philippines
• Rwanda
• Sierra Leone
• Uganda
• United Republic of Tanzania
• Zambia

Contacts

Sarah Kabay

Education Director

skabay@poverty-action.org

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)