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Kenya – James Shikwati, Director of CIPE partner the Inter Region Economic Network (IREN), was featured in a New York Times article this week, ‛Kenya’s Middle Class Feeling Sting of Violence.“ The article discusses the impact of the post-election crisis on the lives and livelihoods of Kenya’s middle class, estimated at approximately four million of Kenya’s 37 million people. The article also explores the efforts of Kenya’s middle class to promote reconciliation of the ethnically-charged conflict that has led to the deaths of over 1,000 people and the displacement of more than 600,000 from their homes. CIPE partner the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) is actively involved in the peace negotiations, representing the business community that has experienced huge losses as a result of the violence. For the full article, visit: www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/world/africa/11kenya.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=9f0b9af1f5d45faf&ex=1203397200&emc=eta1

John Sullivan, CIPE’s Executive Director, spoke at the UN General Assembly’s informal review session on Chapter I of the Monterrey Consensus, entitled "Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development."  The review session is one of a number of programs being sponsored by the United Nation’s Financing for Development Office.  The UN will hold a conference in Doha in November of 2008 to formally review the Monterrey Consensus on Financing for Development which provides guidance for national states, the donor community, and international institutions.  More information is available at the UN’s website at  http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/index.htm.

The next session of International trading club (ITC) on the theme: «Features of development of High Technologies Park (HTP) in the Republic of Belarus» has taken place on January, 16th at 15.00 in the administration of the high technologies Park on avenue Niezavisimosty, 169. Features and advantages of HTP in Minsk in comparison with other world analogues; problems and difficulties of HTP development at the present stage, the mechanism of registration and functioning of the foreign companies in HTP were discussed at session. Residents of the Park have given their presentations at the meeting. Representatives of Embassies of Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Germany, Kazakhstan, China, Cuba, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Serbia, Syria, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine, France, Czechia, Japan and Moldova were on the session. Re-election of members of the board of International Trading Club has taken place as well.

The third International conference «Bank, capital and investments for business and regions» took place in Minsk on December 14, 2007. Conference was organized with the support of National Bank of the Republic of Belarus. The organizing committee consists from heads of the standing committees of the House of Representatives of National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Belarus, Group of the World Bank, and representatives of leading domestic banks and enterprises, public associations of industrialists and entrepreneurs, foreign bank associations.

On November, 30th in hotel "Minsk" session of a round table on a theme «Corporate social responsibility: the legal environment and directions of its perfection » has taken place. The organizer of action - the United Nations Initiative «the Global Compact» in Belarus, www.un.by