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Future Business Association Leaders Learn by Doing

This week, five young professionals from different countries arrived to the US to partake in CIPE’s ChamberL.I.N.K.S. program. Now in its fourth year, the ChamberL.I.N.K.S. program matches chamber of commerce and business association professionals from developing countries with similar organizatio...

Entrepreneurship and Democracy in the Middle East

More than a year after the Arab Spring, it is important to remember that the protests which led to the fall of autocrats around the region were fueled by high unemployment and other barriers to economic participation, especially for young people. As CIPE Executive Director John D. Sullivan and Adb...

International Women’s Day Wrap-Up

Over the past two weeks, we have been highlighting CIPE's approach to women's empowerment and women-focused programs here on the blog. Below is a round-up of our complete women's day coverage: The Role of Advocacy in Building Democracies that Deliver for Women - Sandra Taylor talks about how the ...

Celebrating International Women’s Day with the Spirit of Entrepreneurship

“I want to be a champion skater, and a writer. I want my picture in all the magazines. Maybe I’ll be a movie star. I want to be different from all the other girls. I want to be a modern woman, I want to travel. I want to study languages – languages and history. I want to be every...

Paving the Way

Given that women are half of the world's population, there's understandably a broad spectrum of issues to advocate on International Women's Day, ranging from climate change to health outcomes. Many of these issues are interrelated. Political and economic participation are significant for women be...

Why We Talk About Women’s Empowerment

There's a Margaret Thatcher quotation I like to recall: "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people that you are, you aren't." Indeed, I think that is why so many people, women included, do not like discussing women's unequal participation and representation in the public and ...

Marking Progress, Opportunities and Challenges on International Women’s Day 2012

Today, March 8, is International Women's Day – an annual global event to celebrate the progress and achievements of women. The day also aims to inspire action, to ensure that progress continues to be made in improving the economic, political and social standing for so many women who still lack o...

Leadership in Lambayeque

This article is part of a series of interviews with participants of Instituto Invertir's EmprendeAhora entrepreneurship and leadership training program in Peru. Continuing my grand tour of Peru to meet EmprendeAhora alumni, I headed to the desert-like coastal city of Chiclayo, capital of Lambayeq...

Rep. Donald M. Payne (1934-2012)

CIPE's Board of Directors and staff are deeply saddened by the loss of New Jersey Congressman Donald M. Payne, who passed away on Tuesday, March 6, 2012. Payne was a longtime supporter of CIPE's mission and served on the National Endowment for Democracy board from 1994-2003. He was 77. Read more ...

KnowHow: Mentoring Women Business Associations

Women around the world are still underrepresented in the policymaking and economic spheres. One way for women to become active citizens is working with civil society organizations that have the tools and knowledge to help give them a voice and advocate for reform. That's why CIPE launched the Know...