Democracy That Delivers #229: Inter-Afghan Peace Negotiations, with Manizha Wafeq
Democracy That Delivers
English - October 20, 2020 21:26 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsPolitics News Business anticorruption economicdevelopment entrepreneurship civilsociety democracydevelopment economicreform governance publicprivatepartnerships Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this podcast, Erinn Benedict, Program Officer for the Center for Women's Economic Empowerment (CWEE) at CIPE, is joined by renowned guest Manizha Wafeq. They discuss CIPE’s support for women’s economic empowerment in Afghanistan and women’s roles in the long-awaited Inter-Afghan peace negotiations between the Taliban and Afghan government that commenced on September 12 in Qatar.
Manizha Wafeq, President of CIPE partner AWCCI, discusses what’s at stake for Afghan women during the negotiations and CIPE and AWCCI’s efforts to empower women as entrepreneurs and as advocates for policy reform that enables women’s economic participation.