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Democracy that Delivers #260: Corruption at the Root of Afghanistan’s Chaos with Ikram Afzali of Integrity Watch Afghanistan

04.27.2021 |

Ikram Afzali, Executive Director of Integrity Watch Afghanistan joins CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast to discuss the precarity of Afghanistan’s future and how corruption has exacerbated conflict in the country over the past 20 years. As Afghanistan’s former ...

CIPE Launches Civic Engagement Hub Website in Ethiopia

01.04.2021

The Center for International Private Enterprise is proud to unveil the CIPE Civic Engagement Hub website. The site complements the CIPE Civic Engagement Hub’s physical space in Addis Ababa and will provide regular updates on events, training opportunities, and digital resources to support the grow...

Making a Difference in Yemen

12.18.2020

Security, stability, and economic growth were the top priorities in a series of discussions that took place recently in Yemen, hosted by CIPE partners the Studies and Economic Media Center (SEMC) and the Economic Reform Team (ERT). Made up of Yemeni business leaders from various industries, the ERT ...

Champions of Business Innovation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

12.08.2020

CIPE and its partner the Kurdistan Economic Development Organization (KEDO) have recently concluded a yearlong project to improve the job and entrepreneurial skills for seniors of three universities in the Kurdistan region. The project ended with an online Business Pitch Competition (BPC) on Septemb...

Building Capacity for Women in the Informal Economy

12.03.2020

The informal economy is uniquely challenging to vendors and entrepreneurs regardless of gender, but women tend to experience these challenges differently and at times, more intensely, than men. As a result, commonly suggested solutions, which operate under the assumption that each informal vendor ha...

Democracy That Delivers #229: Inter-Afghan Peace Negotiations, with Manizha Wafeq

10.20.2020 |

In this podcast, Erinn Benedict, Program Officer for the Center for Women’s Economic Empowerment (CWEE) at CIPE, is joined by renowned guest Manizha Wafeq. They discuss CIPE’s support for women’s economic empowerment in Afghanistan and women’s roles in the long-awaited Inter-Afghan peac...

Democracy That Delivers #228: Inter-Afghan Peace Negotiations, with Mohammed Nasib

10.16.2020 |

We are joined by Mohammed Nasib, CIPE Country Director for Afghanistan, and Babak Yektafar, CIPE Senior Program Officer for the Middle East and North Africa. They discuss the work that CIPE has done in Afghanistan to help the country’s democratic development and assess how that work and futur...

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 #220: The Impact of Global Investments on National Security

09.08.2020 |

Dr. Efraim Chalamish is a senior advisor at Duff & Phelps and leads the firm’s Israel practice. He is also a Fellow in the Duff & Phelps Institute, providing thought leadership on a variety of economic and regulatory matters. With more than two decades of professional experience, Efraim h...

Democracy That Delivers #218: COVID-19’s Impact on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (part 2)

08.11.2020 |

This week we are joined once again 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 expe...