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A randomized evaluation of the CDS in western Kenya found a six-fold increase in the number of households with detectable chlorine in their water. In western Kenya in 2011, we increased the number of people with access to safe water through our chlorine dispensers for safe water from 50,000 to 400,000 - a 700% expansion. Chlorine treatment is important, but it is also not the only option. Other research has shown that sanitation and hygiene can prevent post-treatment contamination of water, and that children under two years of age further benefit from nutritional supplements. These approaches raise questions about which intervention or combinations of programs are the most critical in improving health outcomes. Our new Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene WASH Benefits project began in 2011 and is focused on these questions. 1881112 2.Remedial Education in Ghana: 2011 marks the first full year of operation for the Teacher Community Assistant Initiative (TCAI), IPA's scale up of a tested and proven remedial education program aimed at helping low-performing elementary students succeed in school. IPA studies in Kenya and India have shown that struggling elementary students dramatically increase their reading and math skills when instruction is focused at their level, and when students in the lower half of the class are taught basic skills separately from higher-performing kids. TCAI evolved out of these findings. In Ghana, efforts to improve school enrollment have resulted in close to 100 percent of young children attending school. Yet fewer than 20 percent of Ghanaian third graders meet proficiency standards in reading, writing, and math. TCAI aims to close the gap in learning levels for these children. 1421171 3.Ultra Poor Graduation Pilots in Seven Countries: People living in extreme poverty have distinct needs from their slightly better off peers. These needs led BRAC, a Bangladeshi nonprofit, to develop the "Targeting the Ultra-Poor" (TUP) program. IPA's Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative, modeled after TUP, seeks to graduate households out of extreme poverty by providing a holistic set of services, including livelihood training, productive asset transfers, consumption support, savings plans, and health services. Early results from West Bengal, India show that this type of ultra-poor program leads to a 15-25 percent increase in household consumption in the first year after the program's completion. 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ASC 740-10 clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return, including issues relating to financial statement recognition and measurement. This section provides that the tax effects from an uncertain tax position can be recognized in the financial statements only if the position is "more-likely-than-not" to be sustained if the position were to be challenged by a taxing authority. The assessment of the tax position is based solely on the technical merits of the position, without regard to the likelihood that the tax position may be challenged. IPA is exempt from federal income taxation by virtue of being an organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Nevertheless, IPA may be subject to tax on income unrelated to its exempt purpose, unless that income is otherwise excluded by the Code. The tax years ending December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011 are still open to audit for both federal and state purposes. Management determined that there are no uncertain tax positions within its financial statements. Central America and the Caribbean 0 1 Program Services impact evaluation 101325 East Asia and the Pacific 2 17 Program Services impact evaluation 1948523 Middle East and North Africa 1 6 Program Services impact evaluation 719481 North America 1 6 Program Services impact evaluation 791773 South America 1 8 Program Services impact evaluation 979382 South Asia 1 11 Program Services impact evaluation 3292681 Sub-Saharan Africa 8 123 Program Services impact evaluation 17285269 14 172 14 172 25118434 25118434 false false false false false false Schedule F, Part I, Column F All expenditures reported in Column F are accounted for using the accrual method (the same method used for the organization's financial statements and Form 990). Process used to review form 990 Form 990, Part VI, section B, line 11 The Form 990 was prepared by a nationally renowned accounting firm in conjunction with the organization's financial department. A copy of the draft Form 990 was circulated electronically to the full Board of Trustees for discussion and comment. Each Board Member was provided ample opportunity to comment on the information contained in the 990 prior to its filing with the Internal Revenue Service. Conflict of interest policy monitoring & enforcement form 990, part VI, section B, line 12 The organization has a conflict of interest policy in place. All new employees and board members are asked to review and acknowledge their compliance with the conflict of interest policy on an annual basis. The organization distributes an annual questionnaire to all employees (including executives) and Board of Trustees Members. The Board of Directors is tasked with reviewing any potential conflicts of interest and determining compliance with the organization's policy. Process for determining compesation Form 990, part VI, section B, line 15 The organization undertakes a thorough process for determining the compensation of its executive officers, (and uses the same process for all employees. The organization relies on market analysis to determine compensation across all levels, using similarly sized organizations as a benchmark. The organization hired a nonprofit professional advisory group to perform the specific analysis, as well as to search for the chief financial officer. It should be noted that the President and ceo is also the founder of the organization. The President draws no salary from Innovations for poverty action. Availability of the documents to the public Form 990, Part VI, section C, line 19 The organization's audited financial statements, Form 990 and annual summary are posted on the organization's website and are available at the address listed on page 1 of the Form 990. The Form 990 is, likewise, published on www.guidestar.org. The organization's governing documents and conflict of interest policy are available upon request and at management's discretion. They are often picked up for other charity evaluation websites such as charity navigator. Other program services Form 990, part III, line 4d The Organization undertook the following other programs in 2011: 4.Research Initiatives in Sixteen Countries: IPA research initiatives are focused portfolios of research projects designed in concert to provide actionable answers to the questions of policymakers and practitioners working in specific fields. Each initiative focuses on a persistent problem which the poor face around the world. The Global Financial Inclusion Initiative seeks to help the poor manage and grow their money through understanding what kinds of innovative financial services are most effective. Our Small and Medium Enterprise Initiative seeks to help entrepreneurs and small business in the developing world overcome the unique challenges they face to growing their businesses. Our US Household Finance Initiative is working to build better markets for personal finance in the United States by using insights from the social sciences to develop, test, and refine innovations that benefit both users and suppliers of financial products and services. IPA's Post-Conflict Initiative is conducting 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. 5.Deworm the World Initiative in Kenya, India, Liberia and Nigeria: The Deworm the World Initiative helps governments launch, strengthen, and sustain regional and national school-based deworming programs. In 2011, through our collaboration with the government of Bihar, India, 17 million children received deworming medication-85 percent of all school-aged children in the state. This brings the total number of children we have helped reach to 37 million. The Deworm the World Initiative provides technical assistance directly to Ministries of Education and Health to help them develop, implement, and monitor programs over the long term. We coordinate strategic support, such as donated medicine from our pharmaceutical industry partners, and program financing from donors. We also advocate for large-scale programs with global, regional, and country leaders. 6.Rangeland Management in Namibia: IPA is conducting an impact assessment of the Community Based Rangeland and Livestock Management (CBRLM) program in Namibia. This program is part of a larger set of interventions in the agricultural sector designed to reduce poverty among the population of the northern regions of the country. Many people in the area rely on cattle production for their economic livelihoods, however overuse of the communal grazing areas and suboptimal grazing practices threaten the long-term viability of the land and contribute to persistent poverty. The evaluation is designed to test the impact of the various activities within the CBRLM intervention on household income, cattle productivity, and the condition of the rangeland. The intervention targets both inadequate information about appropriate cattle production practices and the social or other behavioral preferences of farmers. 7.Property Rights and Vocational Education in Mongolia: The urban property rights evaluation focuses on the land titling component of the project known as the Privatization and Registration of Ger Area Land Plots Activity in Mongolia, which will provide direct assistance to 75,000 households seeking to privatize and register land plots in urban ger areas. A subset of eligible houses in the area was randomly chosen to receive door-to-door assistance with the registration process. This assistance included support for both the necessary paperwork as well as the registration fees. Researchers will evaluate the program's impact on access to credit, investment in land and housing, property values, labor market outcomes, and household income using both household level surveys and aggregate institutional data. The vocational education study explores whether or not vocational education increases the wages of poor Mongolians through an evaluation of a project designed to improve technical skills and productivity to meet labor market demand in key industries (including, among others, construction, mining, electronics, mechanics, and transport). 8.Savings Impact Studies in Chile, Malawi, Philippines and Uganda: Savings Impact is IPA's four-site replication of a promising pilot study in Kenya which found that access to savings accounts can improve business investments while preserving household finances, especially for women. The follow-up field experiments focus on giving people access to savings accounts at a formal or semi-formal institution that are free or nearly free to use. The aim is to understand the causes and consequences of the lack of access to banking services in a variety of contexts. The study's sites in rural Uganda, Malawi, Chile, and the Philippines marked many successes in 2011, the second year of operations for the study. Three of the four sites recruited over six thousand participants, half of which were offered fee-free savings accounts. The final site in the Philippines developed institutional partnerships and implemented a pilot project, the outcomes of which will be evident in 2012. 9.Biomarkers in Kenya: This evaluation tested two interventions to reduce risky sexual behavior: training teachers on the existing HIV curriculum, and reducing the costs of schooling by providing free uniforms. The 328 study schools were randomly assigned to one of four groups of about 82 schools. Each of the four groups of schools received a different set of programs: group 1 schools received the teacher training program only, group 2 schools received the uniforms program only, group 3 schools received both programs, and group 4 received no program at all. Training teachers on how to implement the national HIV/AIDS curriculum greatly increased the likelihood that teachers teach about HIV in the classroom. However, the intervention did not reduce childbearing rates among girls, suggesting that it did not decrease the likelihood that girls engage in unprotected sex. Free school uniforms led students to stay enrolled for significantly longer, and reduced the incidence of teen marriage and teen pregnancy. In schools that received both free uniforms and teacher training on the HIV/AIDS curriculum, the reduction in drop-outs and teenage pregnancy among girls was lower than that observed in schools that received free uniforms only. On the other hand, the two programs combined led to a significant reduction in the risk of sexually transmitted infections (STI) whereas the other programs did not reduce the incidence of STI after 6-7 years. 10.Sanitation in Bangladesh: The sanitation project tests different strategies to market toilets in an environment where the decisions to invest in the new technology may be closely inter-linked across households. The study is designed to examine whether the low investment in improved sanitation in rural areas is due to a coordination failure, in which it is not sensible for one household to spend money unilaterally on a toilet when others around them are still practicing open defecation, and as a result, all kids are getting sick anyway. The large scale of the project in one rural Bangladeshi district also allows the researchers to study spillover effects of sanitation investments on the local community, including changes in the behavior of local politicians and changes in wages and other labor market effects on masons who manufacture toilet parts. In 2011, IPA had over 230 projects completed or underway in more than 40 countries around the world. These projects are designed to ameliorate the conditions of the poor throughout the world. For more information about the many different projects the organization operated in 2011, please go to http://www.poverty-action.org. For more information about the organization, iTs activities and its programs, please review the annual report at http://www.poverty-action.org/annualreport2011. Schedule O, Part V, Line 4b The Organization also has foreign bank accounts in the following jurisdictions: Bangladesh and Zambia.