To facilitate effective dissemination and policy influence at the national level, PEP provides financial and logistical support for researchers to organize policy conferences, through which they can directly communicate and discuss their PEP research findings to an audience of policy makers, advisors and other stakeholders, in their home countries.
PEP national policy conference in Senegal: "Female entrepreneurship, access to credit, and firms’ performance in Senegal"
Dakar, Senegal – February 18, 2016
PEP national policy conference in Nigeria: "Microcredit and poverty alleviation"
Ikere, Ekiti State, Nigeria – December 18, 2015
PEP national policy conference in Chad: "Education language choice and youth entrepreneurship in Chad"
N'Djamena, Chad – December 22, 2015
PEP presents a set of recommendations from 2015 Policy Forum on "Unlocking Africa’s growth for productive employment and poverty reduction"
A document presenting the main conclusions and recommendations ensued from discussion panels of the 2015 PEP Policy Forum, held in Kenya (May 7), is now available for download here.
PEP national policy conference in Nigeria: "How formal credit markets discriminate small and female entrepreneurs"
Abuja, Nigeria - March 11, 2015
PEP national policy conference in Macedonia: Discussing the potential uses of remittances to foster youth entrepreneurship
Skopje, Macedonia - November 28, 2014
PEP national policy conference in Cambodia: A roundtable discussion on the impacts of national trade policies on welfare and the labor market
Phnom Penh, Cambodia - November 28, 2014
PEP national policy conference in Argentina: "The role of minimum wage and income transfer policies in social protection to the informal sector"
Buenos Aires, Argentina - November 26, 2014.
PEP findings disseminated in Kenya, to provide evidence in support of education policies
Nairobi, Kenya - January 10, 2014
International conference on Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa (YESSA)
Dakar, Senegal - January 28-30, 2014