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Reflections on Local Elections in Nepal Focus: Kathmandu Metropolitan City

Nepal recently announced a November 20 general election date to elect representatives to Parliament and provincial assemblies. Meanwhile, analysts continue to discuss key takeaways from the outcomes of the country’s local elections held on May 13, as the winners settle into office. The May electio...

Stories from Guatemala: How A New CIPE Center is Helping Women Turn Their Business Ideas Into Reality (Part 2)

Corali Women’s Business Resource Center – Making Dreams Come to Life We continue to share inspiring stories from Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, the site of a new Women’s Business Resource Center established by CIPE and the National Network of Managers’ Groups (Red Nacional de Grupos Gestores �...

Heightened Tensions in the Taiwan Strait Force Companies to Recalculate Risks

For decades companies worldwide benefited from the stability and predictability of the Asia-Pacific region, which enabled them to make wise investment and business decisions. Yet recent events, particularly U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent trip to Taiwan, underscore growing regional politi...

Sri Lanka’s Imminent Rebirth?

Sri Lanka seems somewhat calmer for the moment, or so it appears after almost nine months of public protests and political unrest. A crisis of debt and subsequent financial, social, and political uncertainty engulfs the country. With depleted foreign reserves, the news of default on debt payment is...

Stories from Guatemala: How A New CIPE Center is Helping Women Turn Their Business Ideas Into Reality (Part 1)

Corali Women’s Business Resource Center – Making Dreams Come to Life In late 2021, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) and the National Network of Managers’ Groups (Red Nacional de Grupos Gestores – RNGG) established a Women’s Business Resource Center, named “C...

Capturing Lessons on Becoming Resilient During Times of Crisis

Resilience, defined as the ability “to cope, survive, and recover from complex challenges and crises that represent stresses or pressures that can lead to a systemic failure,” is an essential component of sustainable democratic societies. In times of crisis, local private sector organizations he...

Five Lessons on Business-led Anti-corruption Interventions in Africa

Looking back five years since the formation of the Africa Business Integrity Network (ABIN), we are thrilled to share some success stories and instructive insights about how the network has become an essential part of a business-centered and business-led strategy to address corruption problems thro...

Advancing the Democratic and Economic Participation of Persons with Disabilities

Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) are the world’s largest minority, comprising an estimated 1 billion people. While PWDs make up a large percentage of the population globally, they still face various barriers to employment, including a lack of accommodations needed to perform their jobs effectively...

Entrevistas sobre el Futuro del Trabajo en Latinoamérica

El 25 de marzo del 2022, CIPE grabó dos entrevistas para destacar dos temas que formaron parte de la conferencia del Futuro del Trabajo en Latinoamérica. Junto con Santiago Laserna del Centro de Estudios de la Realidad Económica y Social (CERES) y Laurence Pantin de Mexico Evalúa se discutieron ...

Primer on Decentralization

Decentralization Over the last decades, development and democracy practitioners and theorists have worked to understand, and at times, implement decentralization. All countries have a degree of decentralized governance, but the extent to which a country’s government, administrative responsibiliti...

Voices from the Field: Marwa Ben Abdallah

Interview with Marwa Ben Abdallah “Change is the factor that motivates me most, but it can be very slow,” says Marwa Ben Abdallah. During Marwa’s two years at CIPE, she has seen first-hand how slow yet meaningful change can be. As CIPE’s Tunisia Office Program Coordinator, she helps business...

Great Country of Many Ants: 5 Stories on How Ukraine’s Businesses are Supporting Freedom and Independence

This blog is written by CIPE Ukraine field staff. For security purposes, the names have been omitted. For the past two months, tens of millions of Ukrainians as well as people all over the world have been starting their days reading tragic news about the war. Since February 24, Russia has waged a f...

Democracy that Delivers #323: Emerging Leaders in Global Programs

Adam Sachs and Leila Zarifi from CIPE’s own Global Programs department join co-hosts Autumn Moore and Zoe Watkins on Democracy that Delivers’ “Emerging Leaders” mini-series featuring up-and-coming change-makers. We explore their team’s unique mission to incubate solutions for uni...

A Year in Reflection — Reducing Barriers to Women’s Economic Empowerment in Moldova

This piece was first posted on the WAGE blog: It has been one year since the Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE) Consortium launched the “Reducing Barriers to Women’s Economic Empowerment” project. WAGE Moldova is led by the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) in partnership ...

ქალები შრომის უსაფრთხოების სადარაჯოზე

28 აპრილი შრომის უსაფრთხოების საერთაშორისო დღეა. ამ დღის აღსანიშნავად, „უსაფრთხო ბიზნესი თქვენი არჩევანია“* ცნობ...

Women on Guard for Occupational Health and Safety in Georgia

In honor of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work on April 28, the Center for International Private Enterprise’s Safe Business is Your Choice Awareness campaign* is highlighting areas for further improvement within Georgia’s occupational safety and health (OSH) sector. Acknowledging that G...

The 2022 Elections: What’s at Stake for Philippine Democracy?

What does a boxing icon, a retired police general, a labor leader-activist, a former actor, a widow-human rights lawyer and son of a former dictator have in common? They form part of a crowded field of aspirants seeking to become the 17th president of the Philippines. Elections in the middle of ...

Democracy that Delivers #322: Sinking Corruption in Sea-based Trade, with the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network

In the inaugural episode of a new Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast series on Private Sector Collective Action hosted by Katya Lysova, two experts on compliance and international trade talk about one of the largest and most sophisticated international anti-corruption coalitions i...

Philippines Elections: What’s At Stake for Democracy?

The Philippines will hold its national elections on May 9, 2022, with an estimated 67 million Filipinos eligible to vote for the country’s next president and vice president. This will end Rodrigo Duterte’s presidency, as Philippine presidents are constitutionally barred from serving more than a ...

How Do We Advocate?

In this two-part blog feature for the CIPE Civic Engagement Hub – an incubator, resource hub, and co-working space for leading civic-minded organizations in Ethiopia – CIPE’s Policy and Program Learning Unit takes readers through the basics of advocacy by outlining what it is and how to do it....