Blog - Center for International Private Enterprise

Democracy that Delivers #299: Summit for Democracy – Advancing Respect for Human Rights in the Digital Era, with Paola Galvez

12.04.2021 |

Paola Galvez, 2020-2021 Open Internet leader and advisor to the Presidency of Council Ministers of Peru in charge of digital regulation, joins Democracy that Delivers host Ken Jaques and Anna Kompanek, Director, Global Programs, CIPE. This episode is part of a mini-series around President Biden...

Supporting Economic and Democratic Development in Colombia

12.03.2021

For almost 50 years, Colombia’s internal conflict disproportionately impacted rural areas, intensifying existing development challenges and creating new ones. In 2016, the Colombian government signed a peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC in Spanish), which include...

Democracy that Delivers #298: Summit for Democracy – Healthy Digital Space, with Scott Carpenter

11.30.2021 |

Scott Carpenter, Director of Policy and International Engagement at Google’s Jigsaw, joins host Ken Jaques, CIPE Executive Director Andrew Wilson and Senior Program Officer Louisa Tomar. This is the first episode of a mini-series around President Biden’s December 2021 Summit for Democra...

CIPE launches second PNG COVID-19 impact survey report

11.30.2021

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), through its flagship program in Papua New Guinea (PNG) the Women’s Business Resource Centre (WBRC), hosted a virtual event to launch its second survey report on the impact of COVID-19 on 144 women-owned and -operated Micro, Small, and Medium ...

National Women’s Business Agendas for Central Asia

11.29.2021

This piece was first posted on the WAGE blog. The American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI)-led Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE) consortium, funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues, is pleased to announce its new initiative “N...

Democracy That Delivers #297: Women and Girls Empowered – Search for Common Ground

11.23.2021 |

The Democracy that Delivers “Women and Girls Empowered” (WAGE) mini-series spotlights the WAGE core partners’ women empowerment projects. In the last of four episodes, our host Ken Jaques gets to know Search for Common Ground (SfCG) Research, Evaluation & Learning Specialist Aisalky...

Democracy That Delivers #296: Global Entrepreneurship Week – Encouraging Innovation among Students in Papua New Guinea, with Pacific Adventist University

11.16.2021 |

Dr. Khin Mg Kyi, Dean of the School of Business at Pacific Adventist University, joins hosts Ken Jaques and Kim Bettcher for the Democracy that Delivers podcast Global Entrepreneurship Week mini-series final episode. They discuss ways to encourage young people to start their own businesses i...

Democracy That Delivers #295: Global Entrepreneurship Week – Encouraging Innovation among Students in Papua New Guinea, with IBSUniversity

11.11.2021 |

Steve Kimbu, Senior Lecturer at IBSUniversity in Papua New Guinea, joins the Democracy that Delivers podcast host Ken Jaques and CIPE Policy and Program Learning Director Kim Bettcher for the first of a two-part mini-series in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Kimbu teaches ways to encou...

ESG Advocacy through MSMEs in South Asia Can Deliver Labor-Business Symbiosis

11.11.2021

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has reoriented international and private sector attention toward the lack of regulation and compliance that harmed international workers embedded within global supply chains. Consecutive, deadly South Asian industrial incidents and violations of workers rights are stark...

Democracy That Delivers #294: Has Compliance Created a ‘Fabrication Culture’ in Emerging Market Businesses? – with Ethics Expert Hui Chen

11.09.2021 |

Hui Chen, an internationally renowned leader in ethics and compliance, discusses the “uncomfortable” position that emerging market small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) occupy with respect to global integrity and anti-corruption standards. Drawing on Chen’s decades of experie...