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What is Advocacy?

In this two-part blog feature for the CIPE Civic Engagement Hub – an incubator, resource hub, and co-working space for leading civic-minded organizations in Ethiopia – CIPE’s Policy and Program Learning Unit takes readers through the basics of advocacy by outlining what it is and how to do it....

One year of hard work promoting a culture of integrity: the Armenian Business Integrity Club celebrates its first anniversary

In February, 2021, the Corporate Governance Center (CGC) made history in Armenia with support from CIPE. It launched the first-ever anti-corruption collective action initiative in the country. From its first days, the Business Integrity Club gained momentum and had membership requests from companies...

An Example from Colombia Highlights the Importance of Trade Facilitation

For a long time, if you were a company that imports or exports to other countries and had questions about your goods, chances were that you would not receive an answer until your shipment reached the border. If that question was not simple but complex, it would typically take 3-4 months for you to ...

Empowering Georgia’s Private Sector to Comply with Georgia’s New Labor Legislation: Success Stories from Business Associations

Together with the Solidarity Center, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) is managing a project, “Engaging Workers and Civil Society to Strengthen Labor Law Enforcement,”* in Georgia. The program was launched in 2020 and is funded by the U.S. Department of Labor. Under this pro...

Building CSO’s Capacity to Engage in Large-scale Infrastructures in Sri Lanka

As part of the project with the U.S. Department of State (DoS) – Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) on large-scale infrastructure in Sri Lanka, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) has recently partnered with five new organizations, as well as Verité Research (V...

Mitigating the Adverse Side Effects of Russian Sanctions in Central Asia

In response to Russia’s unprecedented military assault on Ukraine, Moscow has been subjected to a barrage of comprehensive and stringent sanctions from the United States, members of the European Union, and other countries worldwide. The aim of sanctions is to quickly restrict Russia’s ability to...

De-programming International Aid for Trade

It is foolish is to repeat the same thing expecting a different result. The WTO TFA agreement took a pragmatic approach in delineating each State Party obligation under three different categories of commitment. The last category, Category C commitments, is the list of TFA mandates countries have sou...

Spotlight: OECD WISE Center Calls For New Ways to Measure Social Performance

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE) aims to put people and their well-being at the center of public policy by generating new data and approaches to improve people’s well-being and reduce in...

CIPE Celebrates International Women’s Day 2022

The Center for Women’s Economic Empowerment (CWEE) at CIPE advances gender equality in emerging markets to build more inclusive, thriving economies and democracies that deliver for all citizens. CWEE consolidates nearly four decades of experience to promote women’s leadership and improve...

Neighbors with Open Arms: Moldovan Society Mobilizes to Support Ukrainians

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a “special military operation” in the Donbas and Luhansk regions of Ukraine. These actions quickly turned into an all-out invasion of Ukraine by land, air, and sea. In the face of war, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, mostly women and...