Amidst the global impact of the coronavirus, the Annual Willem C. Vis Moot in Vienna and Hong Kong was cancelled. More than 400 teams from over 80 countries had anticipated to compete in the premier program this April.

CLDP is assisting Ukraine with compliance to the World Trade Organization. As part of this effort, CLDP  sponsored two teams of law students from Kyiv to attend the ELSA WTO Moot Court Competition. The ELSO WTO Moot Court took place in Brno, Czechia on March 2-6, 2020.

On March 1-5, CLDP led a delegation from Sri Lanka to the P3C Conference in Dallas, which is the largest conference on Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the United States.

From February 26-27, CLDP organized the first Central Asia Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE) Working Group in Istanbul, Turkey.  CLDP invited private sector women entrepreneurs to participate in the working group.  Guest speakers from Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), Coca-Cola

On February 24-26, 2020, CLDP, in collaboration with USTR, organized a series of consultations for a delegation of 11 U.S. textiles industry experts to assess Salvadoran textile and apparel capabilities in San Salvador, El Salvador. The U.S.