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Labor Safety Reforms in Georgia: Why CIPE and the Solidarity Center are Joining Forces to Tackle Compliance Challenges

11.20.2020

The Republic of Georgia is expected to see benefits from a package of sweeping reforms to the country’s labor legislation. The new policies will impact businesses across all sectors and regions of the country. The reforms, enacted on September 29, greatly expand the protection of the rights of wor...

Democracy That Delivers #232: Business Integrity in Time of Crisis and Beyond

11.12.2020 |

In this podcast we are joined by Katya Lysova, Program Officer for Europe and Eurasia, and Michele Crymes, Program Officer for the Anti-Corruption and Governance Center, to discuss CIPE’s new business integrity guide. This new guide has been written to support business integrity and ethics in eme...

Democracy That Delivers #230: The Global Anti-Corruption Landscape in 2020, with Michael Hershman

10.29.2020 |

In this Democracy That Delivers podcast sponsored by the Anti-Corruption and Governance Center (ACGC), we are joined by Transparency International (TI) co-founder Michael Hershman to discuss his decades-long trajectory in the field of anti-corruption. Michael Hershman is a CIPE Board Member, whose ...

Democracy That Delivers #227: Forestry Compliance with Alfredo Rodriguez

10.14.2020 |

In this episode of CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast series, we are joined by Alfredo Rodriguez, the Asia-Pacific Regional Coordinator for the Timber Regulation Enforcement Exchange (TREE) program within the Forest Policy, Trade, and Finance Initiative. Based in South Korea, ...

Democracy That Delivers #225: How to Support Whistleblowers, with Jim Wasserstrom (Part III)

10.02.2020 |

Episode 3 of a 3-part podcast with Jim Wasserstrom, part of our Anti-Corruption and Governance Center (ACGC) series. Jim Wasserstrom is the Director and Founder of the Wasserstrom Group and the former Chief of Party for Democracy International in Afghanistan. He is a whistleblower and former United...

Democracy That Delivers #224: What it Means to be a Whistleblower, with Jim Wasserstrom (Part II)

10.01.2020 |

Episode 2 of a 3-part podcast with Jim Wasserstrom, part of our Anti-Corruption and Governance Center (ACGC) series. Jim Wasserstrom is the Director and Founder of the Wasserstrom Group and the former Chief of Party for Democracy International in Afghanistan. He is a whistleblower and former United...

Democracy That Delivers #223: The Story of a Whistleblower, with Jim Wasserstrom (Part I)

09.30.2020 |

Episode 1 of a 3-part podcast with Jim Wasserstrom, part of our Anti-Corruption and Governance Center (ACGC) series. Jim Wasserstrom is the Director and Founder of the Wasserstrom Group and the former Chief of Party for Democracy International in Afghanistan. He is a whistleblower and former United...

Democracy That Delivers #222: Crisis of Corruption in Lebanon

09.16.2020 |

In this debut edition of CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast series, we are joined by Badri El Meouchi. El Meouchi is president of the board of directors of the Lebanese Transparency Association (LTA) and has been working to battle corruption in the country for more than 15 y...

Democracy That Delivers #216: COVID-19’s Impact on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (part 1)

07.27.2020 |

This week we are joined by Yun Sun of the Stimson center in a discussion about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Chinese domestic and foreign policy. Yun Sun is a Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the China Program at the Stimson Center. Her expertise is in...

A Pivotal Moment to Regulate Artisanal Gold Mining in Burkina Faso

07.27.2020

Artisanal gold mining is a crucial economic sector throughout the G5 Sahel countries of Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Niger. It is especially important in Burkina Faso, where it contributes substantially to the state budget, provides jobs, and can improve the standard of living of other...