On May 25-27, CLDP and USAID supported the Dominican Republic’s first business fair and conference focused solely on small women-owned businesses in partnership with Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Empresarias, Ejecutivas, y Profesionales, INC (ANMEPRO), Asociacion Dominicana De Mujeres Empresarias...

On May 26, the General Directorate for Public Contracting (DGCP) hosted a launch of its new certification program for procurement professionals. The launch included opening remarks from the General Counsel of the US Department of Commerce, Leslie Kiernan, who spoke about the critical importance of...

On May 26, the General Directorate for Public Contracting (DGCP) hosted a session of the Anticorruption Roundtable, an informal coordination mechanism for government agencies tasked with preventing, detecting, investigating or prosecuting corruption, including the public prosecutor’s office, the...

On May 25, CLDP, in collaboration with the General Directorate for Ethics and Government Integrity (DIGEIG) and the Dominican National Council of Private Enterprise (CONEP), organized a public-private dialogue on strengthening integrity mechanisms in the private sector. The roundtable dialogue...

On May 24, CLDP, in collaboration with USAID DR and the Dominican Republic’s Competition Authority (Procompetencia) conducted a workshop for judges and prosecutors on detecting, investigating and prosecuting anti-competitive practices in the public procurement. The workshop included opening remarks...

CLDP conducted a workshop on digital security in the procurement of cloud services for the centralized procurement agency, Peru Compras, and the Secretariat for Government and Digital Transformation (SGDT). General Service Administration and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

CLDP, in collaboration with the State Procurement Oversight Body, hosted an event to launch the construction of the country’s new public procurement platform, which will centralize all government tenders and procurement information. CLDP experts from the General Service Administration and the...

On February 14th CLDP met with Ambassador Viorel Ursu at Moldova's Embassy to the United States in Washington, DC. CLDP's multiple workstreams, areas of future cooperation, and Moldova's transitioning government were all topics of the discussion. Ambassador Ursu will be participating in CLDP's...

CLDP conducted PPP Strategic Infrastructure Planning Program for Mongolian New Recovery Policy Accelerator, Ministry of Finance, and Ministry of Economic Development. The workshop focused on organizational structuring and resourcing, project selection, project management and readiness, and project...

On January 24, CLDP, in partnership with Visa, conducted a workshop for the three main women-owned business associations in the Dominican Republic (DR). The workshop featured experts from Visa-DR who discussed tools and skills to grow from a small to a medium-sized business. With about 30 women...