Jackline Lidubwi, Project Lead at Internews Kenya, joins Anna Kompanek, Director for CIPE's Global Programs, to talk about inclusion of persons with disabilities, specifically those in developing countries.
Jackline Lidubwi is a multi-award winning disability media activist, media trainer, and journalist with 20 years of experience in disability reporting. She leads the Inclusive Media Project across Sub-Saharan Africa at Internews.
Lidubwi discusses her current project at Internews with Kompanek and its focuses on barriers that persons with disabilities face, advances in technologies and their potential for inclusion, and more.
Anti-corruption lawyer Bill Steinman joins the Anti-Corruption & Governance Center (ACGC) podcast to discuss cases of companies cutting deals with terrorist organizations in dangerous foreign markets. The lively discussion starts with the now infamous Lafarge enforcement action, announced by the U.S. Department of Justice in October 2022. It involves a French multi-national cement firm that pled guilty for "conspiring to provide material support and resources" to both ISIS and Al-Nusra Front in Syria in 2013 and 2014. Listen now to hear the similarities and shocking differences between Lafarge's decision-making and parallel cases in Colombia and the Niger Delta, the rationale behind a zero-tolerance U.S. legal standard for payments made to known terrorists, and how Lafarge executives ended up providing U.S. authorities copies of agreements signed on ISIS letterhead. The podcast is co-hosted by Lola Adekanye, CIPE Program Director for Africa, and Ben Schmidt, Program Officer with ACGC.
Accountability Lab's HackCorruption team joins the Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast to discuss how a series of Tech-For-Good events are building diverse communities of anti-corruption activists in emerging markets. Accountability Lab Global Director of Learning Cheri-Leigh Erasmus, Mexico Country Director Eva Sander, and Global Programs and Partnerships Manager Sara Hoenes describe how their hackathon model has set a new bar for training in anti-corruption, design, marketing, and stakeholder engagement. Listen now to hear how one southern Africa group of five winning teams is seeding the work for an upcoming series of anti-corruption hackathons in Asia and Latin America. The program is being implemented with support from CIPE. The podcast is hosted by Anti-Corruption & Governance Center Director Frank Brown and CIPE Program Officer Ben Schmidt.
Sergiy Tsivkach, CEO of UkraineInvest, joins Eric Hontz, Director of CIPE's Center for Accountable Investment, to learn more about UkraineInvest, specifically during a critical moment in Ukraine's history. UkraineInvest is a government institution providing investors with support such as current information and advice on doing business in Ukraine; identifying optimal investment opportunities, and guiding investors through government agencies at all levels.
Tsivkach and Hontz discuss the recent challenges UkraineInvest has faced, how the international private sector can help Ukraine's private sector, innovations and competition in other sectors, and more.