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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 Türkiye’s Earthquake Disaster

One year after devasting earthquakes in Türkiye, 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...

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....

Democracy that Delivers #392: Glossary of Grift: How 300 Terms, Events and Case Studies Explain Corruption

Elizabeth David-Barrett, Director of the Centre for the Study of Corruption at the University of Sussex, is one of the co-editors of the “Dictionary of Corruption.” She joins Katya Lysova, who leads CIPE’s Business Integrity and Anti-Corruption and Governance Programs in Europe and Euras...

CIPE40 Podcast: Our Very First Partner Hernando de Soto

CIPE at 40 Podcast: Reforming Right – Hernando De Soto on Empowering Latin American Entrepreneurs Hernando De Soto is the Founder and President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) in Peru – CIPE’s first developing-country partner. ILD and De Soto shaped Peru’s economic mo...

Democracy that Delivers #390: Navigating Risks in Humanitarian Aid: Expert Insights on Compliance and Integrity

Sabrina Segal, a risk and compliance professional with almost 20 years in the international development humanitarian sector, says there’s a link between democracy and third-sector anti-corruption efforts, also commonly referred to as charities and nonprofit organizations. In this podcast, she joi...

Democracy That Delivers #389: The Current Economic Situation in Lebanon: Catching Up with Dr. Patrick Mardini, One Year Later

Dr. Patrick Mardini, CEO of the Lebanese Institute for Market Studies (LIMS), is a leading advocate for market-based solutions to Lebanon’s economic challenges facing Lebanon. One year since their first conversation on the podcast, Dr. Mardini updates Marie A. Principe, Program Directo...

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