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Synergizing Sub-National Stakeholders on Governance and Accountability – Lessons from Pakistan

11.04.2019

With a population of over 200 million people, Pakistan is ranked as 6th largest country in the world. Since its independence from British-India in 1947, Pakistan remained under military government rule for three decades. Interestingly, military rulers initiated empowerment at the sub-national level ...

Solving Global Youth Unemployment – My experience since writing the CIPE Essay

10.31.2019

At a recent YALI Mandela Fellowship Expo where Program Officer Ryan Musser was representing CIPE, he met a Mandela fellow who won a CIPE essay contest several years ago on Economically-Sustainable Development, in which he wrote about economic opportunity for youth. His name was Babatunde Oladosu, an...

All Eyes on Sudan’s Transition to a Democracy

10.24.2019

With the world watching, Sudan is shifting from a military to civilian government. Sudan’s former dictator, Omar al-Bashir, had ruled for 30 years when his own military removed him from power last April amidst a string of popular protests. A transitional military council ruled the country until A...

Democracy That Delivers #176: Introduction to Women And Girls Empowered (WAGE)

10.22.2019 |

We are joined this week by consortium members of the Women And Girls Empowered program (WAGE) to introduce this global programming consortium. The mission of WAGE is to advance the status of women and girls around the world. The program is funded by the U.S Department of State’s Office for Gl...

Right to Information Act—Driving Accountability through Improved Access to Information

10.18.2019

The paucity of information on the use of public funds in Sri Lanka has typically impeded the public from holding the government accountable for its spending. The lack of visibility tends to leave mismanagement, poor planning and a lack of accountability undetected, which has resulted in the poor im...

Communicating to Transform, not Inform

10.18.2019

Good research, data, and dialogue across key stakeholders are the foundations of good policy making. By contrast, the absence of such research, data and dialogue can lead to unanticipated consequences from policy reform, or the failure to achieve desired change. At Verité Research, we aim to contr...

Democracy That Delivers #175: Skills that Pay the Bills – Democratizing Opportunity for Youth & Fostering Opportunity Entrepreneurship in North Macedonia

10.15.2019 |

To enhance the capacity of Macedonian youth to engage in entrepreneurship, CIPE, William Davidson Institute (WDI) of the University of Michigan, and Youth Educational Forum (YEF) have partnered to develop a comprehensive youth entrepreneurship training program for North Macedonia. Since its pilot i...

Teaching our Kids Two Codes: The Code of U.S. Constitution and Computer Coding

10.11.2019

A civics education extends far beyond a classroom or an exam. A civics education teaches how to listen, distinguish between fact and opinion, and back up an opinion with fact. It teaches the rights and duties of citizenship. A student that can analyze primary source documents, interpret data, and fo...

Democracy That Delivers #174: CIPE Staff Podcast – All Paths Lead to Development

10.10.2019 |

What pathways can one take to get a job in international development? This week, we hear from three staff members who took very different routes to come to CIPE. From interests in governance, private sector and CSOs, or regional passions, CIPE provides all kinds of opportunities. We are joined this...

A Philippine Case Study in Improving Local Governance

10.04.2019

How does the governance of a city become unstuck? How did Mayor Jonas Cortes of Mandaue City, the Philippines, move past a corruption scandal which he inherited and establish clean governance, a business-friendly environment, and participation of the poor? Robert Klitgaard and Melissa Mahone...

Democracy That Delivers #173: Martina Hrvolova Ahead of Presentation at SCCE Conference

09.27.2019 |

This week on Democracy That Delivers, we are joined by Martina Hrvolova and Ken Jaques. Martina shares a glimpse of her upcoming presentation at the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) 2019 Western Balkans Regional Conference. They discuss CIPE’s approach to identifying and comb...

Working towards Peace in Conflict and Post-Conflict Regions

09.26.2019

Every September 21 the United Nations celebrates its International Day of Peace to highlight progress being made towards a more harmonious world. But while we celebrate, there is no shortage of conflict around the world, and certain countries remain less stable than others. Recently, homicide...

Democracy That Delivers #172: Technical Guidance and Anti-Corruption Reform

09.24.2019

In this episode of Democracy That Delivers, we are joined by Peter Glover, Associate program Officer of CIPE’s Anti-Corruption and Governance Center, and special guest Schuyler Miller. Miller recently returned from Trinity College in Dublin, where he completed coursework for his Master...

Why Trade Facilitation Matters – A Real Case Example

09.20.2019

On February 22, 2017, the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) entered into force. While much has been written about the importance of this agreement, when talking about trade, too often economists and policy wonks resort to abstract language and vague terminology th...

Democracy That Delivers #171: Why Trade Matters with Jose Raul Perales

09.17.2019 |

In this week’s Democracy That Delivers, we are joined by José Raúl Perales, Deputy Director of the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation (GATF) at CIPE. Perales and host Ken Jaques discuss the beginnings of GATF’s work with CIPE, and how trade and the private sector can work better t...

Digital Identity Paves the Way to Financial Inclusion for Refugees

09.12.2019

Drive an hour northeast of Jordan’s capital city of Amman towards the Syrian border, and you’ll see white tents start to become visible, sprawling amongst the dry and arid desert. Enter the gates of Zaatari camp and the vibrant life of this Syrian refugee city surrounds you. Children race by, t...

World Chambers Congress – Notes from the Field Part III: Emerging Market Perspectives

09.05.2019

This is Part III of a three-part blog series. Read Part I and Part II. In addition to the themes of the 11th World Chambers Congress (WCC) in Rio de Janeiro that I discussed in my two earlier posts, there was also an interesting conversation about the need for building inclusive and vibrant emergin...

Democracy That Delivers #170: A Discussion on Infrastructure with Gyude Moore

09.04.2019 |

“You need an infrastructure spine to build an economy,” says guest Gyude Moore in this week’s episode of Democracy That Delivers. Gyude Moore is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development, and former Minister of Public Works for Liberia. He joins Ryan Musser, Program O...

World Chambers Congress – Notes from the Field Part II: Building Transparent and Inclusive Markets

08.29.2019

This is Part II of a three-part blog series. Read Part I. Transparency and fair trade are key for the development of inclusive markets around the world. In addition, 68% of countries around the world point to corruption as a serious problem for economic development because of its effects o...

World Chambers Congress – Notes from the Field Part I: Democratizing Economic Opportunity

08.22.2019

This is Part I of a three-part blog series. Thanks to the invitation from the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), I had the opportunity to attend the 11th World Chambers Congress (WCC) held on June 12-14 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The theme of this year’s event, orga...