Lebanon

Lebanon – DPNA and its Entrance to Enterprise (E2E) Steering Committee showcased its entrepreneurship programs at the Business Entrepreneurship Forum in Beirut. More than 150 participants signed up to participate in DPNA’s E2E activities.

CIPE announces winners of the 2012 Global Editorial Cartoon Competition; CIPE partner holds advocacy strategy workshop in Kosovo; CIPE partner in Lebanon participates in business plan competition for high school students

Bethlehem, PA – CIPE Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Greg Simpson gave a talk about Egypt this week at a session of the Foreign Policy Association’s Great Decisions series sponsored by the YWCA of Bethlehem, PA. Former chairman of the board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and CIPE’s first chairman Ed Donley invited Simpson to speak and introduced him at the beginning of the session. Simpson spoke about the status of Egypt’s transition and progress toward democracy two years after the January 25 revolution.

HIGHLIGHTS

HIGHLIGHTS
CIPE holds conference on economic policymaking in Egypt’s new democratic system, CIPE hosts capacity-building workshop for women’s business associations in Nigeria, CIPE partner holds networking event for entrepreneurs in Lebanon

Iraq – CIPE partner the Kurdistan Economic Development Organization (KEDO) led the recently developed Kurdish Transparency and Accountability Board’s July workshop at the Kurdish Regional Parliament. The board, a public-private forum that formed as an outgrowth of a CIPE-supported program with KEDO, discussed its progress to date in enhancing transparency within the Kurdistan Regional Government, including the budgeting process and in extractive industries.