About 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, decisionmakers 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 its founding in 2002, IPA has worked with over 600 leading academics to conduct over
830 evaluations in 52 countries. This research has informed hundreds of successful programs that
now impact millions of individuals worldwide