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 April 15-17, CLDP, in cooperation with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will hold a meeting of the Central Asia Regional Expert-Level SPS Working Group in Almaty, Kazakhstan. This standing working group of representatives from Kazakhstan, the...

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 September 25-27, CLDP hosted its third Central Asia Public Private Partnership Information Exchange Workshop in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic with participants from Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan to help foster interregional dialogue and cooperation on PPPs. PPPs are a...

From September 6-8, CLDP, in cooperation with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, held a meeting of the Central Asia Regional Expert-Level SPS Working Group in Tbilisi, Georgia. This standing working group of representatives from Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz...

From March 19-26, 2023, law students representing 8 universities from Sri Lanka, Nepal, the Maldives, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and the Kyrgyz Republic competed among 111 universities in the 20th Annual Willem C. Vis East Moot in Hong Kong. CLDP sponsored the teams' participation in this premier...

From February 2 – 7, 2023 in Frankfurt, Germany, CLDP partnered with USAID’s Trade Central Asia activity and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage to conduct a workshop on marketing strategies and trade fair best practices for a group of 10 small and medium women-run artisan...

On March 12-14, CLDP held an in-person meeting of the SPS Working Group in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in cooperation with USTR and USDA.  This working group meeting engaged representatives from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and the Kyrgyz Republic to discuss sanitary and phytosanitary...

From January 17 to 20, CLDP held a workshop on stakeholder engagement for digital trade related policymaking for participants from the government and non-government sectors from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and the United States. Government officials from...

The objective of this workshop was to work with government personnel in PPP units, Ministries of Finance, or other line ministries charged with infrastructure project evaluation and oversight to further develop their PPP capacity. To achieve these goals, CLDP is transcribing and captioning into...