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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...

Democracy That Delivers #239: Fraud Risk and Sustainability with Anti-Corruption Expert Kenneth Barden

12.30.2020 |

What’s the secret to making anti-corruption efforts effective in the long term? What lessons can be learned from the mistakes made in public funding and emergency supply chains during COVID-19? In this episode, special guest Kenneth Barden shares answers to these and other questions by drawin...

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 ...

Women’s Business Resource Centre in Papua New Guinea Entering its Fifth Year

12.18.2020

The Women’s Business Resource Centre (WBRC) in Papua New Guinea is entering its fifth year of helping to democratize opportunity in PNG by breaking down barriers faced by women entrepreneurs. The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) takes a look back at four years of ground-breaking ...

Democracy That Delivers #238: Fedesarrollo’s Luis Mejia on Colombia and the Future of Work

12.15.2020 |

Fedesarrollo’s executive director Luis Fernando Mejia discusses his views on Colombia’s “Future of Work” perspectives. Fedesarrollo’s 50th anniversary gives us the chance to look back at where Colombia was in 1970, assess the country’s modern economy, and explore its post-Covid-19 futur...

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Labor Market in Guatemala

12.14.2020

Una versión de esta publicación en español está disponible aquí. Economic challenges and the impact of COVID-19 Prior to the onset of COVID-19, Guatemala already had economic and social challenges requiring significant coordination of efforts to solve them. The pandemic aggravated these challe...

El impacto del COVID-19 sobre el mercado laboral en Guatemala

12.14.2020

A version of this post in Spanish is available here. Desafíos económicos e impacto del COVID-19 Antes de la llegada del COVID-19 las condiciones económicas y sociales de Guatemala ya ameritaban una importante articulación de esfuerzos para ser atendidas. La llegada del virus agravó los desafío...

Democracy That Delivers #237: Interview with FT Journalist Tom Burgis, Author of Kleptopia

12.10.2020 |

Financial Times investigative journalist Tom Burgis, author of the recently released book, Kleptopia, and one of the brightest minds in global corruption, is the guest on the latest edition of the Democracy That Delivers podcast from the Anti-Corruption and Governance Center with CIPE hosts Ken Jaq...

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...

Democracy That Delivers #236: Confronting the World’s Humanitarian Crisis

12.08.2020 |

Frank Vogl is the Chair of the Board of Directors for The Partnership for Transparency Fund. In this podcast, he discusses how now more than ever, transparency and accountability are needed on infrastructure investments, which longer-term will be essential to rebuilding economies. Read his recent b...

Challenge One: Confronting The World’s Unprecedented Humanitarian Crisis

12.08.2020

Awards and honors are a pleasant reminder of a job well done. So it makes sense that when David Beasley, the dynamic Executive Director of the World Food Program, learned that the WFP had been awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize he beamed with joy. But his thoughts immediately turned to the COVID-19 ...

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 #235: Beyond Naming & Shaming: Anti-Corruption in the Era of Deglobalization and Pandemic

11.27.2020 |

Deglobalization, nationalism, and the global COVID-19 pandemic are challenging efforts to fight corruption. Joined this week by anti-corruption veteran, thought leader, and chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery, Drago Kos, CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center director Frank Brown l...

Desafíos para la equidad de género en el emprendimiento colombiano

11.25.2020

(An English version of this piece is available here) Como parte de la Semana Global del Emprendimiento, el Departamento de América Latina y el Caribe (LAC) del CIPE organizó una conversación virtual con Lina Vélez y Decci Ibarra, ejecutivas de las Cámaras de Comercio de Medellín y Putumayo, pa...

Challenges to Gender Equity in Colombian Entrepreneurship

11.25.2020

(A spanish translation of this piece is available here) As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020, CIPE’s Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) department organized a virtual conversation with Lina Vélez and Decci Ibarra, executives from the Medellin and Putumayo Chambers of Commerce, to discuss t...

Bakytbek Sagynaly: “In Central Asia, when one person leaves, the entire institution changes”

11.25.2020

Bakytbek Sagynaly is an open-minded, forward-thinking social entrepreneur in Kyrgyzstan. He was pleased to join the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)’s Central Asia team on a Zoom call recently. He says he spends his time creating innovative solutions for common problems. He is th...

Democracy That Delivers #234: Approaching Project Management and Policy with a Gender Lens

11.24.2020 |

Gender mainstreaming and safeguarding is a growing area of focus in international development, governance, and the private sector. In this podcast, CIPE’s Ken Jaques is joined by two experts to discuss gender mainstreaming with the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, and private-sector ...

Volatile Ethnic Conflict in the Sahel

11.24.2020

There is no viable development without peace, and there is no sustainable peace without development. In the Sahel, security has long been at the heart of development challenges and includes a constantly evolving set of stakeholders and complexities. The G5 Sahel countries – Mali, Ma...

Labor Safety Reforms in Georgia: Why CIPE and the Solidarity Center are Joining Forces to Tackle Compliance Challenges

11.20.2020

The Republic of Georgia is expected to see benefits from a package of sweeping reforms to the country’s labor legislation. The new policies will impact businesses across all sectors and regions of the country. The reforms, enacted on September 29, greatly expand the protection of the rights of wor...

The Value of Multi-Stakeholder Efforts in Preserving Digital Rights during COVID-19

11.20.2020

Modern democracy and vibrant markets require an online space where citizens can freely engage with one another socially, economically, and politically. However, the expanded reliance on the internet, particularly since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to a corresponding rise in efforts le...