Democracy That Delivers

Democracy that Delivers #300: Summit for Democracy – Addressing & Fighting Corruption, with Michael Johnston & Jodi Vittori

Professors Michael Johnston (Colgate) and Jodi Vittori (Georgetown) join guest host Frank Brown, Director of CIPE's Anti-Corruption & Governance Center. This is part of a mini-series around President Biden's Summit for Democracy. Specifically, they talk about ways to improve anti-corruption efforts around the world.

Democracy that Delivers #299: Summit for Democracy – Advancing Respect for Human Rights in the Digital Era, with Paola Galvez

Paola Galvez, 2020-2021 Open Internet leader and advisor to the Presidency of Council Ministers of Peru in charge of digital regulation, joins Democracy that Delivers host Ken Jaques and Anna Kompanek, Director, Global Programs, CIPE. This episode is part of a mini-series around President Biden’s December 2021 Summit for Democracy. Specifically, they talk about the Open Internet Leadership program that CIPE helps run, and ways governments can encourage internet freedom and availability.   ...

Democracy that Delivers #298: Summit for Democracy – Healthy Digital Space, with Scott Carpenter

Scott Carpenter, Director of Policy and International Engagement at Google's Jigsaw, joins host Ken Jaques, CIPE Executive Director Andrew Wilson and Senior Program Officer Louisa Tomar. This is the first episode of a mini-series around President Biden's December 2021 Summit for Democracy. Specifically, they talk about how creating open and resilient digital spaces is a goal that touches all three of the Summit's themes: defending against authoritarianism; addressing and fighting corruption;...

Democracy That Delivers #297: Women and Girls Empowered – Search for Common Ground

The Democracy that Delivers “Women and Girls Empowered” (WAGE) mini-series spotlights the WAGE core partners’ women empowerment projects. In the last of four episodes, our host Ken Jaques gets to know Search for Common Ground (SfCG) Research, Evaluation & Learning Specialist Aisalkyn Botoeva and Gender Advisor Nalini Rathnarajah. From conflict-sensitive initiatives in Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Aisalkyn and Nalini share the unique challenges of advancing the Women, Peace, and Security agenda wh...

Democracy That Delivers #296: Global Entrepreneurship Week - Encouraging Innovation among Students in Papua New Guinea, with Pacific Adventist University

Dr. Khin Mg Kyi, Dean of the School of Business at Pacific Adventist University, joins hosts Ken Jaques and Kim Bettcher for the Democracy that Delivers podcast Global Entrepreneurship Week mini-series final episode. They discuss ways to encourage young people to start their own businesses in Papua New Guinea, a country where CIPE is investing in a program to boost entrepreneurship. They also talk about ways to reduce unemployment in the country.

Democracy That Delivers #295: Global Entrepreneurship Week - Encouraging Innovation among Students in Papua New Guinea, with IBSUniversity

Steve Kimbu, Senior Lecturer at IBSUniversity in Papua New Guinea, joins the Democracy that Delivers podcast host Ken Jaques and CIPE Policy and Program Learning Director Kim Bettcher for the first of a two-part mini-series in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Kimbu teaches ways to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship at the university. “We need to go beyond teaching,” Kimbu says. He cites the success of a CIPE supported program that helps teachers and students apply classr...

Democracy That Delivers #295: Global Entrepreneurship Week - Encouraging Innovation among University Students in Papua New Guinea, with IBSUniversity

Steve Kimbu, Senior Lecturer at IBSUniversity in Papua New Guinea, joins the Democracy that Delivers podcast host Ken Jaques and CIPE Policy and Program Learning Director Kim Bettcher for the first of a two-part mini-series in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Kimbu teaches ways to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship at the university. “We need to go beyond teaching,” Kimbu says. He cites the success of a CIPE supported program that helps teachers and students apply classr...

Democracy That Delivers #294: Has Compliance Created a 'Fabrication Culture' in Emerging Market Businesses? - with Ethics Expert Hui Chen

Hui Chen, an internationally renowned leader in ethics and compliance, discusses the "uncomfortable" position that emerging market small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) occupy with respect to global integrity and anti-corruption standards. Drawing on Chen's decades of experience driving compliance and ethics changes in the private and public sector, including her service as the first-ever Compliance Counsel Expert at the United States Department of Justice, Chen discusses the impossible...

Democracy That Delivers #293: Women and Girls Empowered – American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative

The Democracy that Delivers "Women and Girls Empowered" (WAGE) mini-series spotlights the WAGE core partners' women empowerment projects. In the third of the four episodes, our host Ken Jaques meets Susan Marx, Project Director of WAGE Eswatini for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI). Launched just last year amid turbulent times in the last absolute monarchy of the region, WAGE’s initiative in Eswatini aims to integrate responses to gender-based violence, HIV, and ...

Democracy That Delivers #292: Partnering with Public & Private Sector Organizations for Pandemic-Era Relief

This two-part mini-series of Democracy that Delivers celebrates the winners of CIPE Africa's Women Economic Empowerment Contest. Our host Ken Jaques and Africa Program Associate Laura Maclay hand the second episode over to the Gambia Women’s Chamber of Commerce (GWCC) CEO Beatrice Mboge to present the key hurdles met by women in business in the Gambia and the wide array of partnerships with nonprofit, private, and public sector organizations mobilized by CWCC to provide critical services and...

Democracy That Delivers #291: Why Business Standards Lept “3-5 Years...in 1 Year” with Tom Fox, Compliance Lawyer

Tom Fox, the extraordinarily prolific and knowledgeable host of the popular FCPA Compliance Report, talks about the link between two hot topics in the corporate compliance world - anti-corruption and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance), in the latest episode of the CIPE Anti-Corruption & Governance Center (ACGC) podcast. Drawing on almost 20 years as an anti-corruption lawyer, Fox discusses the rise of anti-bribery enforcement around the world and explains why an increasing number ...

Democracy That Delivers #290: Women and Girls Empowered – Grameen Foundation

Democracy that Delivers picks up the "Women and Girls Empowered" (WAGE) mini-series where the opening episode left off, spotlighting the women's empowerment projects of the core partners of WAGE. In the second of these four episodes, our host Ken Jaques is joined by Grameen Foundation representatives Bobbi Gray, Research Director, and Amelia Kuklewicz, Regional Director for Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia. They bring us updates on Grameen's projects like the Reducing Barriers Initiat...

Democracy That Delivers #289: African Women’s Economic Empowerment with KNCCI-West Pokot

This two-part mini-series of Democracy that Delivers celebrates the winners of CIPE Africa's Women Economic Empowerment Contest. The first episode features the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry's (KNCCI) West Pokot Chapter, a shining example of the impact associations can have in support of women in business. KNCCI-West Pokot CEO I. M. Seth joins program host Ken Jaques and co-hosting Program Officer Ryan Musser to shed light on the unique barriers that women in this rural cou...

Democracy That Delivers #289: African Women’s Economic Empowerment with KNCCI-West Pokot

This two-part mini-series of Democracy that Delivers celebrates the winners of CIPE Africa's Women Economic Empowerment Contest. The first episode features the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry's (KNCCI) West Pokot Chapter, a shining example of the impact associations can have in support of women in business. KNCCI-West Pokot CEO I. M. Seth joins program host Ken Jaques and co-hosting Program Officer Ryan Musser to shed light on the unique barriers that women in this rural cou...

Democracy That Delivers #288: ESG & Anti-Corruption with ELEVATE CEO Ian Spaulding

Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) expert and ELEVATE Limited CEO Ian Spaulding joins the CIPE Anti-Corruption & Governance Center (ACGC) podcast this week to discuss the interplay between anti-corruption and new ESG approaches to managing global supply chains. Spaulding explains that ESG is ultimately about raising standards - for workers, for the environment, and for how companies are managed. When standards are low and companies underperform corruption and fraud can become pervasiv...

Democracy that Delivers #287: Supporting Democracy and Economic Freedom in Poland

To report on Poland's democracy, host Ken Jaques is joined by native Poles Anna Kompanek, Director of CIPE's Global Programs, and Marek Tatala. Marek is the the newest member of CIPE’s Free Enterprise and Democracy Network (FEDN), Vice President and Economist at the Civil Development Forum (FOR), and co-founder of both the Rule of Law and the new Economic Freedom Foundation in Warsaw, Poland. Despite their home country's previously exemplary economic and democratic transition, our guests tel...

Democracy that Delivers #286: COVID and Corruption in Latin America – Risks of Structural Corruption in Brazil

Democracy that Delivers "COVID and Corruption In Latin America" mini-series cohosts Ken Jaques and Elena Padbury wrap up this recap of our recently released report. Last but not least of its country case studies is Brasil, presented by Laís Piasentini Oliva, Advocacy Analyst at the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC). Laís offers recommendations to reduce pre-existing corruption risks and, importantly, the perception thereof, as both intensify from pandemic-related legislative...

Democracy that Delivers #285: Rapid Response – Armenia's Window of Opportunity w/ Anti-Corruption Experts Haykuhi Harutyunyan & Matthew Murray

The latest episode in the Anti-Corruption and Governance Center’s Rapid Response podcast mini-series features Haykuhi Harutyunyan, the chair of Armenia’s Corruption Prevention Commission (CPC), and Matthew Murray, an anti-corruption expert with decades of field experience. The CPC was founded following Armenia’s 2018 Velvet Revolution, in which peaceful protests ushered in a new reformist government. Murray and CIPE were part of a team that supported the CPC in its first year. The podcast is...

Democracy that Delivers #284: Rapid Response – Suliman Baldo’s Report from Sudan’s Historic Transition

In the latest episode of our Anti-Corruption Rapid Response podcast mini-series, Suliman Baldo, a Senior Advisor at The Sentry and a long-time peace and democracy advocate, shares his experiences and perspectives working to advance democracy in Sudan. At the moment, Sudan is undergoing a once-in-a-generation political transition following a massive--and peaceful--grassroots movement in 2019. Baldo analyzes the current window of opportunity in Sudan, the challenges facing the transitional gov...

Democracy that Delivers #283: COVID and Corruption in Latin America – Transparency Opportunities in Argentina

In this continuation of the Democracy that Delivers mini-series on "COVID and Corruption In Latin America", we take a closer look at our recently released report's second of three country case studies: Argentina. Cohosts Ken Jaques and Elena Padbury are joined by Demian González Chmielewski, Public Management Program Coordinator at CIPPEC, a CIPE partner organization that promotes democratic public policies in Argentina. Their research reveals that behind Argentina's strong legal framework l...

Democracy that Delivers #282: Greenwashing or ESG? Making Business Ethics More than Marketing with Tariq Fancy, CEO of The Rumie Initiative

Tariq Fancy, Founder and CEO of The Rumie Initiative, joins the latest podcast from CIPE's Anti-Corruption & Governance Center (ACGC) to take a hard look at the perverse incentives poisoning the growth of ESG (or Environment, Social, and Governance) investing. Fancy, who is the former Chief Investment Officer for Sustainable Investing at Blackrock, gives an insider's look at the rapidly growing world of sustainable corporate finance and the unhealthy placebo effect that unregulated "ESG" lab...

Democracy that Delivers #281: COVID and Corruption in Latin America – Corruption Behind a Pro-Carbonization Policy in Mexico

Democracy That Delivers host Ken Jaques partners with CIPE's Latin America and the Caribbean Program Officer Elena Padbury in a new mini-series behind the scenes of the recently released report on the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and corruption risks in Latin America. Cracking open the first of its three country case studies, Viviana Patiño from the Regulation and Economic Competition Program of Mexico Evalúa shares her findings on corruption in the Mexican electricity sector...

Democracy that Delivers #280: Women and Girls Empowered – Center for International Private Enterprise

Democracy that Delivers kicks off a new mini-series spotlighting women's empowerment projects of the core partners of Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE), a global programming consortium to advance the status of women and girls. In this first of four episodes, our host Ken Jaques is joined by Center for International Private Enterprise colleagues Barbara Langley, Director of the Center for Women's Economic Empowerment, and Elena Ratoi, Program Officer in Moldova. They bring updates on the goal...

Democracy that Delivers #279: Rapid Response – What are Anti-Corruption Windows of Opportunity? - with Florencia Guerzovich and Dave Algoso

The 6th episode of CIPE’s anti-corruption rapid response podcast mini-series features governance consultant Florencia Guerzovich and Open CoLab founder Dave Algoso. Listen now to hear Guerzovich and Algoso break down their recent groundbreaking report on political windows of opportunity for anti-corruption reform. According to Guerzovich and Algoso, these windows of opportunity often follow the overthrow of a dictator or corrupt leader, or the election of a reformist government. However, the...

Democracy That Delivers #278: Co-regulating the Indonesian Digital Economy with Thomas Dewaranu, Researcher at the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (CIPS)

On this episode of Democracy that Delivers, our host Ken Jaques is joined by co-host Adam Sachs from CIPE’s Global Team and Thomas Dewaranu, a researcher at the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (CIPS). CIPE partnered with CIPS to engage in a digital economy advocacy pilot that examines the country’s digital economy environment via interviews, public-private dialogues, and other awareness-raising activities. Thomas Dewaranu shares research recommendations that are captured in a policy pap...

Democracy That Delivers #277: Rapid Response – NDI's Experience Working through Transitions

The 5th episode of CIPE's anti-corruption rapid response podcast mini-series features the National Democratic Institute's Program Director Frieda Arenos and Southern and East Africa Deputy Regional Director Gemima Barlow. Arenos and Barlow share their experiences working with new governments during political transitions and emphasize the human capacity challenges that can face new reformist governments. Arenos and Barlow describe how the transition of civil society leaders to roles within a ...

Democracy That Delivers #276: Advancing Data Privacy and Protection in Kenya, with Open Internet for Democracy Leader Sheilah Birgen

On this episode of Democracy that Delivers, our host Ken Jaques is joined by co-host Adam Sachs from CIPE's Global Team and Sheilah Birgen, The Cord CEO and 2020 Open Internet for Democracy Leader. The Open Internet for Democracy Leaders Program is a non-resident leadership program that empowers emerging leaders from across the globe to build their advocacy and organizing skills to protect internet freedom. Sheilah talks to Adam and Ken about opportunities for advancing data privacy and prot...

Democracy That Delivers #275: Rapid Response – Abigail Bellows

The latest edition of CIPE's anti-corruption rapid response podcast mini-series features Abigail Bellows, Non-Resident Scholar with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Bellows speaks about the political character of corruption fighting, including how corruption has undermined support for democracy around the globe. Joined by CIPE Communications Director Ken Jaques and Program Officer Peter Glover, Bellows describes how fast-moving anti-corruption programs can seize windows of opp...

Democracy That Delivers #274: Future of Global Anti-Corruption Efforts in View of Pres. Biden's Memo, with John Arvanitis

On this episode of Democracy that Delivers, our host Ken Jaques brings fan favorites CIPE Africa Senior Program Officer Lola Adekanye and Kroll Compliance Risk and Diligence Managing Director John Arvanitis back together again from across the globe to continue the fascinating discussion from Episode #269. This time, they discuss President Biden's Memorandum on Establishing the Fight Against Corruption as a Core United States National Security Interest, particularly its commitment to greater ...

Democracy That Delivers #273: Rapid Response – Inside International Republican Institute’s Anti-Corruption Work with Eguiar Lizundia

This episode of CIPE's Democracy That Delivers podcast features special guest Eguiar Lizundia, Deputy Director for the Center for Global Impact at the International Republican Institute (IRI). The latest in a rapid response anti-corruption mini-series hosted by Peter Glover of CIPE's Anti-Corruption & Governance Center (ACGC), the podcast features Lizundia sharing his perspective on rapidly deploying anti-corruption resources during political windows of opportunity guided by IRI's impressive...

Democracy That Delivers #272: Rapid Response — Paul Massaro's Window into the US's Push to Combat Global Corruption

Paul Massaro serves as a senior policy advisor for the US Helsinki Commission, but for those with a window into the US government’s efforts to combat global corruption, Paul’s is a household name. He is a behind-the-scenes driver of a new wave of thinking about the connection between global corruption and US national security. He spoke with Peter Glover of CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center, as part of a new mini-series focused on anti-corruption rapid response, to discuss the new su...

Democracy That Delivers #271: It’s Time to Address Sextortion, with Ana Linda Solano

Ana Linda Solano is a professor, criminal lawyer, and former Director of Colombia’s Special Investigative Police on Economic and Financial Crimes, and this week she joins CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center to discuss the topic of sextortion and the growing call to address the issue. Sextortion is a type of corruption which occurs when those in authority extort sexual favors in exchange for exercising their authority or providing a public service. According to pioneering work by Trans...

Democracy that Delivers #270: Citizen-Centric Development and Response during the Pandemic in Nepal – Where Did the Government Fail?

For the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic on Democracy That Delivers, our host Ken Jaques gets the latest updates from CIPE's partner the Accountability Lab in Nepal. Our organizations work together in Nepal to strengthen a subnational environment of effective public-private sector partnerships. This episode's guests Bikin Ghimire, Communication and Product Manager, and Suvechchha Chapagain, Project Associate, speak on citizen-centric development, the Nepalese governmen...

Democracy that Delivers #269: Anti-Bribery and Corruption Benchmarking with John Arvanitis

On this episode of Democracy that Delivers, our host Ken Jaques and co-host Lola Adekanye, CIPE Africa Team Senior Program Officer, are joined by John Arvanitis, a managing director in the Compliance Risk and Diligence practice of Kroll with almost three decades of experience in federal law enforcement. They discuss Kroll's 2021 Anti-Bribery and Corruption Benchmarking Report and the compliance risk and diligence business, from bribery and corruption to ESG and Artificial Intelligence. List...

Democracy that Delivers #269: Mapping the New Risk Landscape with John Arvanitis

On this episode of Democracy that Delivers, our host Ken Jaques and co-host Lola Adekanye, CIPE Africa Team Senior Program Officer, are joined by John Arvanitis, a managing director in the Compliance Risk and Diligence practice of Kroll with almost three decades of experience in federal law enforcement. They discuss Kroll's latest annual edition of the Global Fraud and Risk Report titled "Mapping the New Risk Landscape" and the compliance risk and diligence business, from bribery and corrup...

Democracy That Delivers #268: The Maldives’ Anti-Corruption Commission President, Mariyam Shiuna

Maldives Anti-Corruption Commission President and Former Transparency Maldives Executive Director Mariyam Shiuna joins the CIPE Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast this week to share her perspective and lessons learned on the transition from being a transparency and integrity civil society leader to heading the government's newly empowered anti-corruption agency. Shiuna talks about her agency's reform agenda, including addressing weaknesses that led to 2018's high-profile MMPRC scand...

Democracy That Delivers #267: LGBTQI+ Economic Empowerment with Angel Romero

In honor of Pride Month 2021, our host Ken Jaques and CIPE's Asia-Pacific Program Officer Gibson Haynes invite Angel Romero, the Director for Partnership & External Affairs of the Philippines LGBT Chamber of Commerce, to join the podcast. Our organizations' partnership is CIPE's first program devoted to LGBTQI+ economic empowerment. Following up on our recent joint Manila Virtual Forum on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equality: "Recover with Pride", they discuss the challenges facing LGBTQI+ bus...

Democracy That Delivers #266: Women in Business during the Pandemic — Dispatches from Europe & Eurasia with Olga Melniciuc

On this episode of Democracy that Delivers, the "Women in Business during the Pandemic" series brings our host Ken Jaques to Moldova once again. He is joined by co-host Natalia Otel Belan, CIPE Regional Director for Europe and Eurasia, as well as our guest Olga Melniciuc, National Consultant on Women’s Economic Empowerment for UN Women Moldova and past President of the Association of Women Entrepreneurs from Moldova (AFAM). Listen to find out how Ms. Melniciuc and fellow women in business i...

Democracy that Delivers #265: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nepal with Sarwagya Raj Pandey

On this episode of Democracy That Delivers, our host Ken Jaques is joined by Sarwagya Raj Pandey, the Research and Advocacy Officer at Bikalpa - an Alternative, a public policy think tank based in Nepal in partnership with CIPE's Asia Pacific Team. They talk about his firsthand experience of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the people of Nepal both socially and economically, notably for small businesses and the tourism sector. Beyond a story of loss, Mr. Pandey tells a story of human t...

Democracy that Delivers #264: CIPPEC’s Gala Diaz Langou on the Future of Work in Argentina

In this continuation of the “Future of Work” series, we seek to make sense of the changes, reforms, and challenges brought about by COVID-19 in Latin America. Our host Ken Jaques is joined by CIPE Latin America & Caribbean Regional Director and cohost John Zemko in a discussion with the newly-appointed Executive Director of the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC) Gala Diaz Langou. Live from Buenos Aires, Langou shares the impact of the COVID-...

Democracy that Delivers #263: How ‘Access Money’ Corruption Boosts & Threatens China’s Growth with Yuen Yuen Ang, PhD

Political scientist, China scholar, and University of Michigan professor Yuen Yuen Ang, PhD, joins the CIPE Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast this week to provide an expert’s guide to how corruption has supercharged and complicated China’s blistering rate of economic growth. Sharing insights from her new book, China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption, Ang distinguishes between four kinds of corruption: petty theft, rent theft, speed money, and access mon...

Democracy that Delivers #262: Women in Business during the Pandemic — Dispatches from Europe & Eurasia with Angela Gladei

On this episode of Democracy That Delivers, our host Ken Jaques takes the mini-series to Moldova with local CIPE Program Officer Elena Ratoi. They are joined by our guest, Angela Gladei, the President of the Association of Women Entrepreneurs from Moldova (AFAM). AFAM partners with the Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE) program to build the capacity of women and girls in Moldova. Hear about Ms. Gladei's professional and personal experiences with regional challenges to female entrepreneurship d...

Democracy That Delivers #261: The Future of Democracy with International Republican Institute's President, Dr. Daniel Twining

On this episode of Democracy that Delivers, our host Ken Jaques and our co-host and Executive Director, Andrew Wilson, are joined by International Republican Institute's President, Dr. Daniel Twining. This discussion concludes our podcast series titled, The Future of Democracy. Dr. Daniel Twining explains the importance of both building and protecting democracies and how the four core institutes of The National Endowment for Democracy, CIPE, IRI, NDI, and Solidarity Center, each have a uniqu...

Democracy that Delivers #260: Corruption at the Root of Afghanistan's Chaos with Ikram Afzali of Integrity Watch Afghanistan

Ikram Afzali, Executive Director of Integrity Watch Afghanistan joins CIPE's Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast to discuss the precarity of Afghanistan's future and how corruption has exacerbated conflict in the country over the past 20 years. As Afghanistan's former Chief Information Commissioner and the architect of the country's Access to Information law, Afzali draws on decades of experience on the front lines of anti-corruption efforts and shares insights on the origins, threat...

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Democracy that Delivers #259: Women in Business during the Pandemic — Dispatches from Europe & Eurasia with Elen Manukyan

On this episode of Democracy that Delivers our host Ken Jaques and co-host Luiza Ayvazyan, a CIPE Program Officer located in Armenia, are joined by Elen Manukyan, Co-Founder & Program Manager at Fashion and Design Chamber of Armenia. The Chamber is a non-profit association founded in November 2017 by a group of Armenian designers with the mission to support Armenian fashion, design, and textile sector development. Listen to learn more about how the fashion and textile industries have been im...

Democracy that Delivers #258: México Evalúa’s Laurence Pantin on the Future of Work in Mexico’s Judiciary

México Evalúa’s Laurence Pantin discusses her work on the Mexican judicial sector’s experience with digital technologies. Pantin is the author of “Guide to Good Practices on the Use of New Technologies for the Administration of Justice;” the report explores how Mexico adapted to COVID-19’s restrictions and delivered justice to its citizens. The report is part of México Evalúa’s Digital Justice Program, which has been at the forefront of research exploring how the new digital technologies are...

Democracy that Delivers #258: México Evalúa’s Laurence Patin on the Future of Work in Mexico’s Judiciary

México Evalúa’s Laurence Patin discusses her work on the Mexican judicial sector’s experience with digital technologies. Patin is the author of “Guide to Good Practices on the Use of New Technologies for the Administration of Justice;” the report explores how Mexico adapted to COVID-19’s restrictions and delivered justice to its citizens. The report is part of México Evalúa’s Digital Justice Program, which has been at the forefront of research exploring how the new digital technologies are a...

Democracy that Delivers #257: Everything You Didn't Know about TI's Corruption Perceptions Index with Jon Vrushi

Jon Vrushi, Transparency International's Research Coordinator, joins ACGC's podcast to discuss the statistical basis and methodology behind the world's most popular corruption measure: The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). Vrushi explains the 13 data sources behind the index and explains why expert opinions and evaluations of public sector corruption - including some based on quantitative evidence - are used instead of public perception surveys. Listen to Vrushi discuss how the CPI is “use...

Democracy that Delivers #256: The Transformative Power of Entrepreneurship for Refugee Women with Nour Akkad

In this episode of Democracy that Delivers our host Ken Jaques is joined by co-host Hannah Byrd, CIPE Program Associate for the Center for Women's Economic Empowerment, and former CIPE LIFE Project Coordinator, Nour Akkad. Nour describes how the LIFE Project recruited and incubated refugee women and shares success stories from the program. CIPE and a Consortium of international partners developed the Livelihoods Innovation through Food Entrepreneurship (LIFE) Project. The LIFE Project launch...