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Democracy That Delivers #234: Approaching Project Management and Policy with a Gender Lens

11.24.2020 |

Gender mainstreaming and safeguarding is a growing area of focus in international development, governance, and the private sector. In this podcast, CIPE’s Ken Jaques is joined by two experts to discuss gender mainstreaming with the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, and private-sector ...

The Value of Multi-Stakeholder Efforts in Preserving Digital Rights during COVID-19

11.20.2020

Modern democracy and vibrant markets require an online space where citizens can freely engage with one another socially, economically, and politically. However, the expanded reliance on the internet, particularly since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to a corresponding rise in efforts le...

Democracy That Delivers #233: Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020 at CIPE, with Kim Bettcher

11.17.2020 |

We are joined by Kim Bettcher, Director of CIPE’s Policy and Program Learning Department, to discuss some of CIPE’s approaches to promote policy changes for entrepreneurs, and the work our partners do to promote entrepreneurship on a global scale. Want to hear more? Listen to previous ...

Building Institutions that Make Property Markets Work

11.13.2020

Property rights are among the most fundamental principles enshrined in Article 17 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Yet access to and protection of property rights vary greatly. What is more, in many countries the understanding of property rights remains limited to prop...

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...

Economic Transitions and Political Transitions: What’s the Big Deal?

11.11.2020

The past year has not been kind to democracy. Social and economic dislocations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the growing appeal of authoritarianism have dealt twin shocks to the attractiveness of consultative and representative forms of government worldwide. As analysts and politicians ...

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 ...

Foreign Investment in a Post-COVID-19 World

10.21.2020

Driving Economic Growth and Good Governance while Protecting National Security Just as the adverse health effects of COVID-19 will not vanish immediately but will be resolved in stages, so too will the global economy recover in stages, across industries and around the world. As both Western economie...

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...