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...

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 May 15-21, 2023, 30 Government officials, civil society, and private sector representatives from Central Asia will travel to Malaysia and Singapore for a digital trade case study and Working Group Meeting. CLDP is collaborated with USAID Future Growth Initiative (FGI), and USAID Trade Central...

On March 28-29, 2023, CLDP facilitated a Regional Cybersecurity Conference and Workshop in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Experts and partners include DHS, AmCham, HP, MasterCard, Boeing, World Bank, and AUCC. The conference also launched the Regional Cyber Champions Network.

On March 28-29, 2023, CLDP facilitated a Regional Cybersecurity Conference and Workshop in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Experts and partners include DHS, AmCham, HP, MasterCard, Boeing, World Bank, and AUCC. The conference also launched the Regional Cyber Champions Network.

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...

In Almaty, Kazakhstan from December 9-10, 2022, CLDP and the WAGE (Women and Girls Empowered) Consortium held a regional conference on approaches to improve the business environment for women in Central Asia. The event reached 133 participants, including government officials and representatives from...

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...