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Topic Discussion IV
Achieving Good Governance
Controlling Corruption, Improving
Administration
and Strengthening the Rule of Law
Room 1
(2 of 22 pages)
Chris Uhlmann: Now, I'm Chris Uhlmann, I'm with NDI and before I turn it
over to our moderator, just one or two housekeeping notes. Again, if you could remember to wear your headsets and
also, if you're going to speak in French today, if you would kindly say that before you speak and wait maybe five
seconds, because the interpreters need to switch booths. So again, if you're going to speak French, please say
that first and then wait just five or ten seconds and that will give us a chance to get caught up. With that, let
me turn this over our moderator, Keith Micelli. Keith.
Chair: Good morning, everyone. We like to say that they saved the best for last. We're starting a bit late,
but it's been a long two and a half days and we have a very important topic for discussion this morning. Even though
we've had a chance to see each other in the last two and a half days, I don't know everyone here, so I think it
would be helpful, with the exception of my -- the two panelists who will open the program, I would like to go from
my right to left and have everyone just give me your name, title and country.
Attendees Introduce Themselves: [Not available due to technical difficulties]
Chair: Thank you and welcome. Well, I'm Keith Micelli. I'm Deputy Director of the Center for International
Private Enterprise. We're an international business foundation affiliated with the National Endowment for Democracy
and also the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The U.S. Chamber is the world's largest voluntary business association.
We have a membership of three million firms representing every size, sector and geographic region in the United
States. Ninety-eight percent of our members are small and medium size companies.
The U.S. Chamber also has an international presence through 84 Chambers of Commerce, American Chambers of Commerce
located throughout the world, including a number represented here at the forum.
The U.S. Chamber also provides CIPE that is, which is the acronym for the Center for International Private Enterprise.
It also provides the U.S. Chamber with an international presence. Since we were founded 15 years ago, we have funded
over 400 projects in 70 countries, including many represented here at the forum. The mission of the center is to
promote private enterprise and market economics, market reforms, by providing both technical and financial assistance
to local groups in emerging democracies and more recently, women's business organization. We fund Chambers of Commerce
in the industry, economic think tanks and education institutions.
Our mission relates I think, very directly to the remarks that the Honorable President Saleh made on the opening
day, when he said, you can't have democracy without economic development. This is particularly true as governments
today are looking to the private sector to be the primary engine for economic growth.
Until a few years ago, I managed the Federation of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin American and the Caribbean
and the Brazil U.S. Business Council. Both groups have as their primary mission to convince government officials,
both in the executive and their legislative branches, to improve the operating environment for business by adopting
economic policies, approving laws and formulating regulations that would assist business to become more productive
and competitive.
The primary objective of this session on achieving good governance is to take advantage of your country's specific
expertise and experiences, both your successes and failures in promoting good governance. The session is not intended
to be merely descriptive of the problems of achieving good governance, but also prescriptive, that is, to offer
solutions to solving them. In effect, this is a south-south exchange of experiences.
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