Democracy That Delivers

Nemanja Todorović Štiplija, President of the Centre for Contemporary Politics and Editor-in-Chief of the European Western Balkans Igor Novakovic, Research Director of the International and Security Affairs Centre

With presidential elections approaching in the Czech Republic, policy expert Radko Hokovsky analyzes the current political climate and key reform issues. 

On this special 100th episode of Democracy that Delivers, Dr. Delia Ferreira Rubio shares her vision regarding the global fight against corruption and spotlights innovative new approaches that appear to be working.

On this week's podcast, Belarussian economist Jaroslav Romanchuk discusses important reforms taking place in his home country, which has maintained many Soviet Union ideologies.

Drago Kos, who chairs the OECD's Working Group on Bribery, is the guest of this week's podcast and discusses the difficulties many nations face when implementing anti-corruption measures .

In this week's podcast, Civil Development Forum Vice President, Marek Tatala shares his take and explains how CDF is using technology and other outreach mechanisms to empower citizens.

In this week's podcast, Jeanmarie Meyer and Troy Wray discuss the Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC) efforts to update Indonesia's purchasing processes through the Procurement Modernization Project.

In this new podcast, Cadasta Foundation Interim CEO Frank Pichel explains the vital role of land rights within modern economies and how Cadasta is leveraging new technology to strengthen and formalize land tenure systems in developing nations

In this week's podcast, Aziz shares the changes she's witnessed and helped foster for women entrepreneurs from 1988 to today.

In this week's podcast, Steven Pifer, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former Ambassador to Ukraine, guides the listener through the development of U.S. diplomatic relations with Ukraine following the breakup of the Soviet Union through the present.

Hudson Hollister quit his congressional job in 2012 and used his retirement savings to found The Data Coalition.  His mission: to make U.S. government spending information more transparent and publicly available.  The Data Coalition successfully pushed for new laws requiring federal agencies to release key financial figures on one internet site and use the same format. Despite some big implementat...

Businesses that take on corruption and pursue a path of integrity can come out ahead financially, says Frank Vogl, anti-corruption expert and adjunct professor at Georgetown University.

As part of its post-war recovery plan, Colombia's government is offering big incentives to businesses that expand operations there and reaching out to local communities for input.  The new program is a critical part of Colombia's ongoing peace process, according to Jaime Arteaga, CIPE's lead in-country consultant.  The government is promising huge tax breaks to companies that make long-term invest...

This week's podcast features Vladimir Petronijevic, executive director, and Miroslava Jelacic, legal analyst, with Group 484—a nonprofit organization founded in Serbia in 1995 to support 484 refugee families.

This week's podcast guest is Imtiaz Gul, founder and executive director of the Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), a Pakistan-based think tank.

This week's podcast guests discuss the relationship between a thriving democracy and an open and accessible internet.

This week's guest is Hans-Joachim Hogrefe, director of policy and advocacy at Refugees International, a nonprofit organization that advocates for lifesaving assistance and protection for displaced people.

This week's guest on Democracy that Delivers is food diplomacy expert Johanna Mendelson-Forman. She is an adjunct professor at American University and distinguished fellow with the Managing Across Boundaries Initiative at the Stimson Center.  

This week's guest is Jeffrey Smith, executive director of Vanguard Africa, a startup nonprofit that provides campaign advice and public relations support to pro-democracy leaders in Africa. Smith aims to bring the international spotlight to Gambia, which is recovering from a more than two-decades-long dictatorship. Political and civil rights were nonexistent during the presidency of Yahya Jammeh,...

This week's guest on CIPE's Democracy that Delivers podcast is Karim Shaaban, CIPE's program director in Jordan. In this podcast, Shaaban discusses the positive effects that CIPE and the USAID Jordan Local Enterprise Support (LENS) Project have had on economic growth in local communities in Jordan. LENS was created to support the growth of micro and small enterprises, particularly those led by wom...

This week's guest on CIPE's Democracy that Delivers podcast is Vaqar Ahmed, Ph. D. Ahmed is deputy executive director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. In this podcast, Ahmed discusses CIPE's partnership with SDPI, the growth of Pakistan's economy, and the country's need for a thriving private sector. After a decade of low gros...

This week on CIPE's Democracy that Delivers podcast, Manzoor Ahmad, Ph. D., discusses economic and infrastructure growth in Pakistan. Ahmad is president of the PRIME Institute and a senior fellow with the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva.   CIPE and PRIME collaborated to create the Government Policy Scorecard, which is intended to hold the Pakistani government a...

This week on CIPE's Democracy that Delivers podcast, Masooma Sibtain, president of the South Punjab Women's Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SPWCCI) in Pakistan, discusses the current state of women entrepreneurs in South Asia. Born and raised in Pakistan, Sibtain says women in her country have always participated in the work force. However, most of their jobs have been in the informal sector as ar...

This week on CIPE's Democracy that Delivers podcast, CIPE's Country Director in Nigeria, Omowumi Gbadamosi, discusses economic and democratic progress in Nigeria. Gbadamosi began her career with CIPE in 1988, and the most dramatic change she has seen in the last thirty years is the transformation in Nigeria from a military dictatorship to a democracy. Gbadamosi believes the Nigerian government is...