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Three County Chambers Highlight CIPE’s Centers of Excellence program in Kenya

In Kenya, with the devolution of government, county chambers of commerce are playing an increasingly important role in serving and advocating on behalf of small businesses. Several years ago, CIPE sought to find out which county chambers among Kenya’s 47 counties demonstrated the greatest pote...

Seven Policy Recommendations from the First Six Months of the Future of Work Initiative

As the impact of the pandemic in Latin America came into view, CIPE embarked on a new initiative, The Future of Work, to bring attention to continuing challenges and to focus on opportunities to strengthen the region’s economic recovery after COVID-19. During the last six months, our conversations...

The Kampala Principles in Action: Case Studies in Private Sector Engagement

The need for better partnerships with the private sector has become an imperative in the quest for sustainable development and shared prosperity. Thanks to new case studies on the Kampala Principles, released this week, we now can visualize the ingredients of effective partnerships. Case studies fro...

Women in Associations: CIPE Joins USAID Initiative Supporting Entrepreneurs and Business Associations in Azerbaijan

The capacity development program under the USAID Private Sector Activity’s (PSA) new Women in Associations component is now underway. To kick the program off, PSA hosted a daylong hybrid online and in-person workshop on March 30. Titled “Inspiration and Success: Building a Strong Associatio...

შრომის კანონმდებლობის რეფორმები საქართველოში: კერძო მეწარმეობის საერთაშორისო ცენტრი და სოლიდარობის ცენტრი ერთიანი ძალებით უმკლავდებიან კანონის შესრულების გამოწვევებს

A version of this post is available in English. საქართველოს შრომის კანონმდებლობაში განხორციელებულმა ძირეულმა რეფორმებმა სარგებელი უნდა მ�...

CIPE and Its Partners Are Acting to Mitigate Corruption Risks in Latin America

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) partners with a network of leading think tanks in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico to improve the management of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Latin America to mitigate corruption risks. At the heart of this initiative, which has been in place s...

Проблемы договорных отношений: казахская предпринимательница о незащищенных законом партнерских договорах

This post is also available in English. Из неудачи можно вынести ценный урок. Зарина Бекболат, предприниматель из Казахстана, убедилась в этом лично, когда отказалась от стабильной �...

Women in the Sahel: Champions for Change

Women are making a difference throughout the world, but especially in Africa’s Sahel region. There, they are playing an important role in local resilience, taking a unique position as allies against violent extremism, and working to reverse the increasing spread of communitarian violence. Yet soci...

Anti-Corruption Collective Action in Armenia: Corporate Governance Center Launches “Business Integrity Club”

The Corporate Governance Center in Armenia is making history with support from CIPE. On February 5, 2021, CGC launched the first-ever anti-corruption collective action initiative in the country. Representatives of more than 30 companies attended the inaugural meeting of the Business Integrity Club...

Contracts Matter: Lessons on Unprotected Partnership Agreements from a Kazakh Entrepreneur

This post is also available in Russian. Valuable lessons come out of failures. Zarina Bekbolat, an entrepreneur from Kazakhstan, learned this firsthand when she left her stable career in auditing to go into business with her family. Though her family’s dairy distribution business experienced initi...