Central Asia faces considerable frictions in electronic cross-border payments that curtail domestic transactions, trade and ecommerce. At the same time, the region seeks to build an inclusive ecommerce framework, to promote women’s full participation in digital trade and economic activity.  To...

From May 12-16, CLDP sponsored the participation of a delegation of women leaders and entrepreneurs from the Western Balkans and Azerbaijan to form a women’s economic security working group and participate in the International Trade Administration’s Tradewinds Forum in Türkiye. The delegates...

On April 22-23, 2024, CLDP through Africa Women and Youth Empowerment Group (AWYEG), in partnership with African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program (AWEP), the Organization of Women in International Trade (OWIT), the AmCham Business Summit, and the Commercial Service Women Empowered Leave Legacies...

Under the Central Asia Women’s Economic Empowerment project, CLDP supported a year-long mentorship initiative for a group of Central Asian women artisans eager to scale their small enterprises and expand regional trade. The culmination of our collective effort, in partnership with the Smithsonian...

From December 4-8, 2023, CLDP, in coordination with the Department of State, Bureau of South and Central Asia and the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office, organized the Central Asia Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Working Group meeting on the margins of UNCTAD e-Week. The program fostered a public...

On August 20 – 21, CLDP, alongside U.S. Embassy Accra as well as international and regional trade and investment partners, hosted a workshop on franchise investment opportunities for local entrepreneurs and prospective investors. The workshop trained participants on how to develop and negotiate a...

From September 4 - 8, 2023, 80 Government officials, civil society, and private sector representatives from Central Asia and the United States will gather for a Central Asia Regional Inclusive Digital Trade Program co-organized by CLDP and UNESCAP. This program will include U.S.-Central Asia...

On April 13, CLDP conducted a webinar for the three main women-owned business associations in the Dominican Republic (DR). The webinar featured a business finance expert from Visa-DR and focused on financial education. This event is part of CLDP’s programming to improve women’s business access to...

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...

From April 24 – 26, 2023, CLDP held the Central Asia Women’s Economic Empowerment Working Group (WEE WG) in Baku, Azerbaijan. The working group brought together WEE WG participants and Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE) country leads from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan to...