From November 1-3, 2022, CLDP, together with experts from Ag Aligned Global, will conduct a workshop for food safety officials from Sri Lanka’s Plant Protection and Quarantine Division, Ministry of Health, and Standards Institute in Colombo, Sri Lanka. After beginning with an overview of the main...

From August 28 – September 1, 2022, CLDP together with experts from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Ethics Law and Programs Division, conducted two workshops for 110 total Ethics officials within Egypt’s National Food Safety Authority (NFSA), in Cairo and Alexandria. After beginning with an...

CLDP will travel to Chisinau, Moldova from June 20-24 to conduct an assessment for existing work on its public procurement, sanitary and phytosanitary measures development, customs, intellectual property, and women’s economic empowerment programs. CLDP will also discuss new work related to state...

SOUTHERN CAUCASUS The Southern Caucasus is a critical component of the “Middle Corridor of the New Silk Road” trade route that connects China to Europe. The United States has recognized the strategic and economic import of this corridor and has played a critical role in its development through joint initiatives that increase regional connectivity. CLDP’s regional programs in the Southern Caucasus...

In April 2022, CLDP held four separate in-person roundtable meetings on sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan respectively. Roundtables were attended by officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, Agency for Plant Protection and...

From December 11^th – 16^th, 2021, CLDP conducted a series of assessment meetings in Cairo, Egypt, designed to kickstart CLDP’s work with Egypt’s food safety regulatory regime and to deepen its understanding of Egypt’s needs in the area of trade facilitation. CLDP met with high-level representatives...

CLDP, in cooperation with USTR, USDA, and USAID, hosted a virtual meeting, which engaged representatives from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and the Kyrgyz Republic to discuss sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures and notification to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and...