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Women in the Sahel: Champions for Change

04.09.2021

Women are making a difference throughout the world, but especially in Africa’s Sahel region. There, they are playing an important role in local resilience, taking a unique position as allies against violent extremism, and working to reverse the increasing spread of communitarian violence. Yet soci...

Anti-Corruption Collective Action in Armenia: Corporate Governance Center Launches “Business Integrity Club”

04.09.2021

The Corporate Governance Center in Armenia is making history with support from CIPE. On February 5, 2021, CGC launched the first-ever anti-corruption collective action initiative in the country. Representatives of more than 30 companies attended the inaugural meeting of the Business Integrity Club...

Democracy that Delivers #257: Everything You Didn’t Know about TI’s Corruption Perceptions Index with Jon Vrushi

04.08.2021 |

Jon Vrushi, Transparency International’s Research Coordinator, joins ACGC’s podcast to discuss the statistical basis and methodology behind the world’s most popular corruption measure: The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). Vrushi explains the 13 data sources behind the index and...

Democracy that Delivers #256: The Transformative Power of Entrepreneurship for Refugee Women with Nour Akkad

04.06.2021 |

In this episode of Democracy that Delivers our host Ken Jaques is joined by co-host Hannah Byrd, CIPE Program Associate for the Center for Women’s Economic Empowerment, and former CIPE LIFE Project Coordinator, Nour Akkad. Nour describes how the LIFE Project recruited and incubated refugee ...

Contracts Matter: Lessons on Unprotected Partnership Agreements from a Kazakh Entrepreneur

04.06.2021

Valuable lessons come out of failures. Zarina Bekbolat, an entrepreneur from Kazakhstan, learned this firsthand when she left her stable career in auditing to go into business with her family. Though her family’s dairy distribution business experienced initial success, it eventually had to shut it...

How Digital Technology Can Serve a More Humane Justice

04.06.2021

Historical, political, economic, social, and technological changes are constantly transforming professions. As some die out, new ones emerge. For example, when the steam engine was created and railroads began to spread, coachmen were no longer needed, yet engine drivers made their appearance. Lawyer...

Reducing Barriers to Women’s Economic Empowerment in Moldova

04.02.2021

This piece was first posted on the WAGE blog: The ABA ROLI-led Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE) consortium, funded by the U.S. Department of State Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues, is pleased to announce its new initiative “Reducing Barriers to Women’s Economic Empowerment in...

Democracy that Delivers #255: Women in Business during the Pandemic — Dispatches from Europe & Eurasia with Lilit Asatryan

04.01.2021 |

On this episode of Democracy that Delivers our host Ken Jaques and co-host Luiza Ayvazyan, a CIPE Program Officer located in Armenia, are joined by Lilit Asatryan, founder and President of Armenian Young Women’s Association (AYWA) and the founder of Women Entrepreneurship Network in Armenia. List...

Democracy that Delivers #254: Leveraging Technology to Digitize Informal Markets

03.30.2021 |

On this episode of Democracy that Delivers, our host Ken Jaques and our co-host Anna Kompanek, Director of CIPE’s Global Programs, are joined by Mercedes Bidart, CEO & Co-Founder of Quipu. Quipu is a new digital platform and app that builds community marketplaces to allow micro-businesses...

Why Trade Facilitation Fits in with CIPE’s Mission and Vision

03.30.2021

Trade facilitation means cutting red tape and eliminating corruption at the border or point of entries of goods. Characteristics of goods range from those that would require only payment duties and taxes for clearance to those that would require inspections (physical and documentary), before enterin...