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...

On March 14-15, 2022, CLDP hosted a virtual meeting of the Central Asia Regional Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Working Group gathering over 72 expert-level government officials and private sector women representatives from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan...

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...

On November 1-2, CLDP, in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Business Facilitation Program and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Gender & Economic Inclusion, led the Central Asia Regional Women’s Economic Empowerment Working...

On April 13-15, CLDP organized the second meeting of Central Asia Regional Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Working Group. The three-day virtual meeting gathered private sector women entrepreneurs from the five Central Asian countries and Afghanistan, as well as experts from U.S. government...

On Monday, March 29, 2021, CLDP led the working group session of the U.S.-Central Asia Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council meeting. CLDP reported on the work of its Expert Level Working Groups on Customs, Women’s Economic Empowerment, Sanitary/Phytosanitary Measures, and...

CLDP in partnership with the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, USTR, and USPTO hosted a Webinar for Central Asia Regional Expert Level Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights on the Interagency Coordination for the Protection and Enforcement of Intellectual Property...

On June 25,  CLDP held the first of a series of webinars for CLDP’s Central Asia Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) working group which focuses on how to promote businesswomen in the Central Asia focusing on a variety of commercial law topics.  In this webinar, experts from the Women’s World Banking...

CLDP Attorney Michael Cofield participated in the U.S.-Central Asia Trade and Investment Framework Agreement annual meetings on October 21-22, 2019in Washington, DC.On Monday, October 21, CLDP briefed theTIFA-level Working Groups on the work and results of the CLDP-facilitated regional Expert Level...