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How Kenya’s Private Sector is Addressing the “Supply Side” of Corruption

A recent report by Kenya’s Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) paints a rather grim picture of the extent of corruption in Kenya. In the top 10 counties by average bribe size, bribes range from KSH 80,000 (about $800 US) to about KSH 6,000 ($60 US) — in a country where the aver...

Using Mobile Technologies for Better Engagement with Stakeholders

How can civil society organizations gather more data and information from its constituents for a better public private dialogue (PPD) process? Taking advantage of available free or low-cost mobile technologies is one answer. Mobile technologies have transformed how people across the world communica...

Promoting Advocacy with Technology Part 2: Two days in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

By Micheal Gallagher, Panoply Digital This blog post was originally published by Panoply Digital, who are helping CIPE partners around the world improve their digital capabilities. Read the first part here. In an ongoing collaboration with the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), an ...

Small Business in Egypt: the Heavy Burden of Following the Rules

By Ahmed ElSawy This post originally appeared in Arabic on the CIPE Arabia blog. Sayed Diab spent 26 years of his life working as a technician supplying organizations with sound systems and related digital services for their events and conferences. Six years ago he started his own business in this ...

Leave it to the Ladies: Addressing Corruption Head-on to Attract Foreign Investment in Africa

This post originally appeared on CIPE’s Corporate Compliance Trends blog. Despite the thick Lagos air and long journey 60 women entered the The Moorhouse hotel on a recent Saturday morning, exchanging excited greetings and fresh ideas. Women business leaders adorned in brightly colored fabric...

Making Digital Development Projects Work

In the last decade, countless development projects have piloted new tools to reach more beneficiaries or to make current systems more efficient. While the intentions of such initiatives are good, often the results are not stellar. This is because digital development projects often favor one-off act...

Sparking Debate on Economic Policy in Nepal

By Sarita Sapkota, Samriddhi In the annual Asia Liberty Forum in Malaysia this year, Atlas Network presented the Asia Liberty Award to Samriddhi for its ‘Econ-ity’ initiative. As part of Atlas’ Regional Liberty Awards, The Asia Liberty Award recognizes think tanks within the Atlas...

Profiting from Parity: The Business Case for Gender Integration in Value Chains

Sustainable Development Goal 5 set the bar to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” by 2030. Closing gender gaps in work and society could add $12 trillion to global GDP by 2025, according to McKinsey Global Institute. This figure underscores the socioeconomic impo...

Girl Rising: Civic Education and its Role in Economic Empowerment

Women comprise more than half of those displaced by the Syrian civil war, a conflict affecting more than 12 million people. As entire communities’ social services and educational structures have been upended and 3 million children forced to abandon their education, girls and young women have ...

Democracy That Delivers Podcast: #6 Selima Ahmad on Women’s Business Leadership

Founder of the Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry Selima Ahmad discusses how she built an organization that helps thousands of women entrepreneurs and what it takes to takes to be a successful businesswomen in Bangladesh. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or on your Android devic...