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Democracy That Delivers

The Democracy That Delivers podcast is about democratic and economic development and the intersection between the two. Through their personal stories, guests share how their work is helping build stronger democratic institutions in countries all over the world and how they are tackling some of the major governance challenges that many countries face today. The weekly discussion covers a wide range of topics including entrepreneurship, governance, rule of law, and the role of the private sector in democratic processes.
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Jun 22, 2023

In recent years, Armenia’s government has put in place a robust anti-corruption infrastructure to counter what had been the country’s historically high levels of corruption. Hasmik Tigranyan, the Head of the Anti-Corruption Policy Development and Monitoring Department at Armenia’s Ministry of Justice, joins CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast to discuss the progress that has been made to date. Listen now to hear Tigranyan elaborate on the government’s planned initiatives, as well as what this all means for the country’s business community. This episode is co-hosted by ACGC Director Frank Brown and CIPE’s Head of Office in Armenia, Luiza Ayvazyan.

Jun 7, 2023

How can associations and business membership groups stay ahead of the curve in these challenging times? Bill Pawlucy joins the Democracy that Delivers podcast to discuss his new book: The Essential Handbook for Nonprofit Leaders. Listen now to hear Pawlucy draw on decades of experience working with business associations worldwide, covering everything from sustainable revenue and governance strategies to advice on how to harness technology and navigate emerging trends. This episode is hosted by Stephen Rosenlund, CIPE's Middle and North Africa Deputy Regional Director and leader of the organization's Associations Working Group.

 

The episode is part of the CIPE Policy & Program Learning Department's Association Frontiers series, which focuses on sharing the newest challenges and opportunities in chamber and association leadership around the world. 

May 31, 2023

By many measures, Armenia has made significant strides in the fight against corruption since the Velvet Revolution of 2018. Eric Hacopian, a political analyst and the host of the online show Insights with Eric Hacopian, joins CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast to discuss the noticeable reduction of petty corruption in Armenia and how that transition came to be. Listen now to hear Hacopian elaborate on how certain Armenian industries, most notably the information technology sector, led the business community’s push for increased anti-corruption efforts, and describe the impact on the private sector as a whole. This episode is co-hosted by ACGC Director Frank Brown and CIPE’s Head of Office in Armenia, Luiza Ayvazyan.

May 25, 2023

What really happens when a country is “grey listed” by the global Financial Action Task Force (FATF)? CIPE examines this with Muazu Umaru, Director of Policy and Research at the Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering (GIABA) in West Africa. The discussion follows announcements that Nigeria is among the new adds to the FATF’s “grey list” of countries with deficiencies in their structural abilities to counter money laundering and terrorism financing.

CIPE’s Nigeria Country Director and anti-corruption expert Lola Adekanye hosts a discussion with Umaru to analyze the ruling’s impact on financial sectors and the economy, one of Africa’s largest. The two also talk about recommended measures the country must take to address key issues flagged by the FATF.

May 4, 2023

A CIPE partner is among those leading crisis efforts on the ground in southern Turkey, where massive February earthquakes leveled entire communities and displaced millions. TÜRKONFED (Turkish Enterprise and Business Confederation) was one of the first organizations to respond after the quakes, mobilizing its vast network of associations and federations to assist with immediate relief efforts. The groups are now supporting longer-term business rebuilding efforts amid the grief and despair.

It is considered one of the worst natural disasters in recent history for a region already under great strain, due to war and a growing refugee population. TÜRKONFED’s work is one example of how business organizations around the globe are stepping in to assist governments and fill critical gaps in times of urgent need.

CIPE is spotlighting this growing trend in a new Democracy that Delivers podcast series on “Association Frontiers” hosted by Stephen Rosenlund, who leads CIPE’s internal Associations Working Group and serves as Deputy Director of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Programs. In the inaugural podcast, he talks with TÜRKONFED Secretary General Ardu Batu and MENA Senior Program Officer Babak Yektafar about current efforts by the business community to assist earthquake victims and help restore lives and livelihoods.

Apr 26, 2023

Much anti-corruption work focuses on identifying corruption that already exists. A different approach proves more preventive: helping enhance efficiency, transparency, and accountability in organizations. That is the method used by Erry Riyana Hardjapamekas, who joins CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast to discuss the award-winning work being done by the Private Sector Collective Action Coalition Against Corruption (KAKI), launched in September 2020 in partnership with CIPE.

 

A former commissioner with Indonesia's world-renowned Commission for the Eradication of Corruption (KPK), Pak Erry shares his vision for KAKI. KAKI’s aim is to function as a unique platform that helps the private sector and government prevent corruption. Listen now to hear Pak Erry explain how KAKI provides companies with anti-bribery and anti-fraud expertise and raises integrity standards to avoid facing corruption investigations by the KPK down the road. This episode is co-hosted by ACGC Director Frank Brown and Cynthia Gabriel, CIPE’s Senior Anti-Corruption Advisor based in Kuala Lumpur.

Apr 6, 2023

Charles Dunst, Deputy Director of Research & Analytics at The Asia Group, a Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Contributing Editor of American Purpose, joins Jennifer Anderson, Senior Program Officer for CIPE's Asia & Pacific team to discuss his new book, "Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman," which can be found here: http://linktr.ee/defeatingthedictators

In his new book, Dunst writes about how the world is experiencing the lowest levels of democracy in over thirty years. Autocracy is on the rise and may appear to be an attractive option to many. Dictators disrupt democratic foundations from both within and abroad and make those who are disillusioned with current institutions think that authoritarianism could deliver them a better life than democracy could. In this episode, Dunst and Anderson discuss how to combat institutional rot, the relationship between democracy and autocracy, why citizens should be more engaged and interested, and more.

Mar 29, 2023

Corina Rebegea, an Anti-Corruption Advisor at the National Democratic Institute, joins CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center (ACGC) podcast to discuss how to craft effective messaging that supports anti-corruption campaigns during windows of opportunity. Her report, The Role of Anti-Corruption Communications in Sustaining Integrity Reforms, highlights specific ways to design effective anti-corruption communication campaigns to earn popular support for government integrity reforms. Drawing on her years of experience developing strategies to promote good governance and counter disinformation, Rebegea reviews past research and points to ways to cultivate hope in place of cynicism. 

Listen now to hear Rebegea share emerging lessons from anti-corruption campaigns and potential avenues for future research. One major finding in the review is that sometimes anti-corruption campaigns can actually backfire and potentially even create apathy among citizens about the fight against corruption. These takeaways can help guide reformers during windows of opportunity in tailoring their anti-corruption messaging to avoid common pitfalls. This episode is hosted by Richard Christel, a Program Officer with ACGC who leads the Anti-Corruption Rapid Response Program.  

Mar 22, 2023
Anna Podlesna, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager for Profesia, joins Anna Kompanek, CIPE's Director of Global Programs, to discuss the impact of Profesia's work in the disabilities sphere. Profesia was founded in 1997 in Slovakia and currently hosts the biggest job portal in the country. Profesia has since expanded beyond Slovakia and has received many awards for its achievements in providing employment resources that are uniquely tailored towards people with disabilities. 
 
In 2022, Podlesna received recognition when she was featured in the Map of Social Innovators (a creation of the Pontis Foundation and international organization Ashoka) because of her work empowering underrepresented groups. In this episode, Podlesna and Kompanek discuss Profesia's approach to assisting jobseekers with disabilities. They also discuss trends in inclusive hiring in recent years.
Mar 16, 2023

Dr. Andrea Bonime-Blanc, author and CEO of GEC Risk Advisory, joins CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast to discuss her new joint publication with CIPE, the Risk to Value Guide: How Emerging Market Businesses Can Transform New Risks into Value. Bonime-Blanc has made a name for herself, including in her acclaimed 2020 book, Gloom to Boom, for articulating how firms can flip the script and convert risks into opportunities. Listen now to hear Dr. Bonime-Blanc discuss the guide and this year’s top sustainability “mega trends” that civil society, business, and government leaders need to be aware of. This episode is co-hosted by Michele Crymes, Program Director with ACGC, and Louisa Tomar, Program Director on the Global Programs team with a focus on the intersection of technology and democracy. 

Mar 8, 2023

Serhiy Derkach, an anti-corruption lawyer who led the Department of Corruption Prevention and Detection at Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) from 2020 to early 2023, joins CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast this week to share about the agency's work both before and since Russia's invasion. Derkach, who was named Ukraine's Deputy Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development in February, describes how the NACP has pursued its mandate since being created during Ukraine's 2014 Revolution of Dignity. Today, the NACP continues to support anti-corruption compliance efforts in both the public and private sectors. The agency also maintains various IT platforms to address corruption, from a sanctions portal to assets declaration registries and a reporting corruption hotline. Listen now to hear Derkach share how the war has affected the NACP's work, the agency's place in the country's anti-corruption system, and the crucial role Ukraine's civil society organizations are playing in establishing a culture of integrity in Ukraine. This episode is hosted by Katya Lysova, Program Director for Europe & Eurasia who oversees CIPE’s business integrity programming in the region.

Mar 2, 2023

The Women and Girls Empowered Consortium (WAGE), in partnership with the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) published CIPE’s newest Democracy that Delivers podcast, “Reducing Barriers to Women’s Economic Empowerment in Moldova.” Elena Ratoi, CIPE Program Officer, and Carolina Bugaian, Board Member of the Association of Female Entrepreneurs of Moldova (AFAM) discussed the development of the Alliance for Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Republic of Moldova, whose mission is to reduce barriers to women's economic empowerment. Bugaian and Ratoi discussed key successes the Alliance has accomplished in the past year and the importance of women’s business advocacy initiatives. They also discussed one of the prevailing barriers to women’s economic empowerment, gender-based violence, and how the Alliance works to combat gender-based violence and its damaging effects in Moldova.

Feb 23, 2023

Tim Robinson, Chief Compliance Officer at BHP, joined CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center (ACGC) podcast on the margins of December’s International Anti-Corruption Conference to discuss why BHP - one of the world’s largest mining companies - has chosen to actively prioritize integrity and business ownership transparency with its partners and global supply chain. As he shares, "effective anti-corruption measures and an effective anti-corruption environment...helps promote a level playing field...[and] prevents corrupt companies from gaining an unfair and illegal advantage when competing.” Listen now to hear Robinson discuss the specific initiatives that BHP is a part of, including beneficial ownership initiatives and commitments to a sustainable transition to a clean energy future. This episode is co-hosted by Michele Crymes, ACGC Program Director, and Ben Schmidt, Program Officer with ACGC.

Feb 10, 2023

Oleksii Sobolev, the recently named Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine, joins CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast this week to discuss Ukraine's lauded innovations in procurement transparency and accountability. Recorded a few weeks ago while he was still the Chief Executive Officer of Prozorro.Sale, Sobolev provides an insider story of Ukraine’s efforts to strengthen integrity, market competition, and public trust in the government as it developed and launched a uniquely transparent system for government purchases and the sale of government assets, which has already helped process $2.5 billion in transactions involving over 55,000 participants and continues to do so amid the ongoing war. Listen now to hear Sobolev share how the platform connects to over 40 different e-commerce websites - and stores all its information in a centralized and public database - and how interested governments can adopt the same system in their home countries. This episode is hosted by Katya Lysova, Senior Program Officer for Eurasia who is responsible for overseeing CIPE's business integrity programming in the region.

 

Feb 1, 2023

Cheikhou Oumar, President of the Observatory for Monitoring Economic Development Indicators in Africa (OSIDEA), joins CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast to discuss Senegal's historic push for ownership transparency in the extractives sector and beyond. Oumar shares his experience at the center of trilateral negotiations with government, business, and civil society as the country has launched and mandated compliance to its first-ever beneficial ownership registry, which currently includes 130 companies and counting. Listen now to hear how the West African country of 16 million has taken on some of the biggest private interests in its $24 billion economy by requiring them to share their ultimate owners, how the private sector has reacted, and what OSIDEA has been doing to raise awareness about how beneficial ownership transparency helps combat corruption and level the playing field in the economy. This episode is hosted by Richard Christel, Program Officer with ACGC and lead for the Anti-Corruption Rapid Response Program.

Jan 4, 2023

Rainer Heufers, Executive Director of the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (CIPS) joins Adam Sachs, Program Officer for CIPE's Global Programs team to discuss digital governance and how to inform better policies through the T20 process.

Against the backdrop of Indonesia’s presidency of the G20, CIPE supported CIPS as it served as a co-chair for the T20's Taskforce 4: Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture. CIPS also developed two policy papers papers - G20 Framework for Repurposing Agricultural Policy Support to meet Global Climate and Food Security Goals and Regulating Cross-Border Data Flows in the Development Context - which were included in the official G20 repository.

In this episode, Heufers and Sachs discuss how CIPS provided policy analysis and fostered stakeholder engagement in the months leading up to the T20 summit and beyond.

Dec 24, 2022

James Wasserstrom and Tamara Razin, co-chairs of Moldova’s Independent Anti-Corruption Advisory Committee (CCIA), join CIPE's Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast to discuss the CCIA’s high-stakes role in combating strategic corruption. Founded in June 2021— after Moldova elected president Maia Sandu on a promise to end the “rule of thieves”—the politically independent body aims to stop state capture, analyze systemic corruption issues across institutions in Moldova, and improve the implementation of anti-corruption measures. Listen now to hear how Wasserstrom and Razin’s experience fighting corruption in Afghanistan and Ukraine has guided the new organization, how they're leveraging research to make an impact despite lacking investigative powers, and a summary of what the CCIA has uncovered thus far in its fact-finding work. This episode is hosted by Katya Lysova, Senior Program Officer for Eurasia specializing in business integrity and anti-corruption compliance.

Dec 14, 2022

Larry Chan and Daniel Hong from Free World Investment join Eric Hontz, Director of CIPE's Center for Accountable Investment and Catherine Tai, Deputy Regional Director of CIPE's Asia and Pacific team to discuss the considerations of geopolitical risks when investing.

Free World Investment is the first ethical investment strategy dedicated to safeguarding global capital in developed markets from investing into countries with heightened political and country investment risks.

Dec 7, 2022

Dr. Patrick Mardini, CEO of the Lebanese Institute for Market Studies (LIMS) joins Marie Principe, Program Officer for CIPE's Middle East and North Africa team to discuss the current status of Lebanon amid the economic crisis and private sector led solutions.

LIMS is a platform for research, collaboration and innovation in economic policy and helps governments and public-sector organizations design and implement market solutions in Lebanon.

Mardini and Principe discuss the causes of the economic situation, the effects on the Lebanon population, how LIMS has been addressing the issue, and more.

 

Nov 30, 2022

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.

Nov 23, 2022

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. 

Nov 17, 2022

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.

Nov 3, 2022

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.

Oct 20, 2022

From Armenia, Shushan Doydoyan, president of the Freedom of Information Center, and Lilya Afrikyan, coordinator for the Prime Minister's Office of Open Government Partnership, join the Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast this week to discuss the challenges and successes Armenia is experiencing as it fights to enact beneficial ownership transparency (BOT) reforms. Just after its 2018 revolution, the country’s new government collaborated with civil society to implement a plan to transform existing beneficial ownership records into a comprehensive, digital, and open resource. Listen now to find out how and why the country was among the first to launch this kind of sweeping BOT initiative. This episode is hosted by CIPE’s Luiza Ayvazyan, Program Officer for Armenia on the South Caucasus team.

Oct 12, 2022

Wisborn Malaya, Secretary-General of the Zimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy Associations (ZCIEA) joins Ryan Musser, Program Officer for CIPE's Africa team and Kim Bettcher, Director of CIPE's Policy and Program Learning team to discuss Malaya's experiences and insight into the informal economy in Zimbabwe and around the world. 

Our hosts and guest discuss the similarities between the informal economy in Zimbabwe compared to other informal economies in other countries, Malaya's work with ZCIEA, lessons learned from advocating for the informal economy, and more. 

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