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Democracy that Delivers #402 – ACGC – The Cost of Maritime Corruption: A Nigerian Case Study

Episode Description Corruption in the shipping industry is a persistent challenge for fair trade across the world, estimated by our guests to cost the international economy billions of dollars each year. The Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN) is a global business network of over 200 companies...

Democracy that Delivers #401 – ACGC – Exploring the Innovative Tactics of Moldova’s Anti-Corruption Prosecution Office with Veronica Dragalin

Episode Description Challenged by a legacy of oligarchic state capture and a war raging in neighboring Ukraine, Moldova has made significant strides in recent years in putting in place anti-corruption structures that strengthen the rule of law and democratic institutions. At the forefront of that ef...

Democracy that Delivers #400 – FEDN Small Grants – Using Democratic Spaces to Promote Ethical Practices in Business

Episode Description In 2022, FEDN Member Grace Nzou began the project “Using Democratic Spaces to Promote Ethical Practices in Business.” As one of the inaugural FEDN small grants projects, the first phase of the project focused on training youth in Elgeyo Marakwet on ethical entrepreneurship. T...

Democracy that Delivers #399: FEDN Small Grants – Democracy, A Digital Story for Young Generations

Episode Description Between July 2023 to January 2024, CIPE supported a new project, “Democracy: A Digital Story for Young Generations” through the Kurdistan Economic Development Organization (KEDO). As part of the Free Enterprise and Democracy Network (FEDN) Small Grants initiative, they ...

Democracy that Delivers #398: FEDN Small Grants – The Rule of Law, Our Future

Episode Description Last year, Poland held extraordinarily consequential parliamentary elections where the conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) lost its majority for the first time since 2015. Against this backdrop, CIPE supported a new project, “The Rule of Law – Our Future” through the�...

Democracy that Delivers #397: Upholding the Ruggie Principles in Colombia’s Private Sector

The Ruggie Framework is a three-pronged approach that includes the obligations of corporations to uphold human rights, the responsibility of the state to protect those rights, and the provision of effective remedies for any infringements. In this CIPE Anti-Corruption and Governance Center (ACGC) p...

Democracy that Delivers #396: Combatting Corruption in Sudan: A New Coalition Emerges

Anticorruption Taskforce Sudan, ACT-Sudan, is a newly established coalition of local Sudanese civil society organizations dedicated to identifying and combating corruption in Sudan to achieve the ultimate goal of ending the war and bringing justice to the people of Sudan. The task force aims to...

Democracy that Delivers #395: Innovating for Resilience: TÜRKONFED’s Response to Turkey’s Earthquake Disaster

One year after devasting earthquakes in Turkey, Erhan Arslan of TÜRKONFED joins Babak Yektafar, CIPE Program Director, and Stephen Rosenlund, Deputy Director of CIPE’s Middle East and North Africa Team. TÜRKONFED, a CIPE partner, is an independent business confederation representing 30...

Democracy that Delivers #394: Fostering Growth & Collaboration in Central Asia with B5+1

Democracy that Delivers #394: Fostering Growth & Collaboration in Central Asia with B5+1 The B5+1 is a business dialogue platform for the five central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, along with the United States. The Center for Inter...

Democracy that Delivers #393: Unpacking the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act, with Scott Greytak and Tom Firestone

Two authors of the groundbreaking U.S. Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA) join the podcast to discuss one of the most sweeping and consequential anti-corruption laws of the last four decades. Tom Firestone, a partner at Squire Patton Boggs, and Scott Greytak, Director of Advocacy at the U.S....

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