2009 Annual Report

Bangladesh

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$170,549
To improve the business environment in which women entrepreneurs work in Bangladesh. CIPE and its partner, the Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry, will build on its previous work developing a Women’s National Business Agenda by seeking to advance the issues identified and will also raise public awareness of the agenda through a series of television talk shows.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
$362,889
To effective minority participation in the legislative process and inform parliamentary transition efforts. NDI will convene multi-party advisory group meetings with civil society and academic leaders to address ways in which the majority and minority parties can work together while maintaining their respective parties’ interests.