On October 18-20, CLDP led a compliance training for officials from the General Directorate for Public Procurement. The officials are part of a pilot program, and each carry out a function within key Dominican ministries that undertake large procurements. The training focused on the main barriers...

On October 18, CLDP met with the General Directorate for Public Procurement (DGCP) to share best practices on the professionalization of the procurement workforce. CLDP experts provided an overview of the U.S. government’s professionalization practices, including a detailed description of the...

On October 13, CLDP led a technical session with Dominican officials from the General Directorate for Public Procurement, the General Directorate for Governmental Ethics and Integrity, and the Legal Advisory Office of the Presidency, to provide recommendations on the reform of the current draft of...

On October 14th, CLDP hosted a delegation of 10 high-level Jamaican officials in Washington D.C. for a forum on 5G security, to discuss benefits of 5G and Open Radio Access Networks (Open RAN). Among others, the delegation was comprised of several ministers, including the Minister of Science, Energy...

CLDP, in cooperation with the Center for International Legal Education (CILE) of the University of Pittsburgh College of Law, is hosted a virtual Vis Moot training workshop for the incoming 2021-2022 CLDP sponsored university teams who will compete in the 29th Annual Willem C. Vis International...

On September 23, 2021, CLDP supported the International Trade Administration in hosting government officials from Brazil in a virtual privacy roundtable by managing the Zoom platform, tracking participants, and providing simultaneous interpretation between English and Portuguese.  The participants...

On June 29, CLDP, in cooperation with the Dominican Republic’s (DR) Competition Commission (Procompetencia) and the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division, conducted a virtual workshop on best practices for detecting and investigating hub and spoke cartels in public procurement. These...

On June 30, CLDP, in coordination with the Dominican Republic’s General Directorate for Public Contracting (DGCP), hosted a workshop on conducting effective due diligence of vendors in public procurement. DGCP requested CLDP’s support to train procurement compliance officers on responsibility...

On June 22, USAID Dominican Republic (DR) held a ceremony for its new Mission Director. The ceremony included remarks from USAID Administrator Ambassador Samantha Power and the Charge d’Affaires (CDA) for the DR, Robert Thomas. Ambassador Power highlighted CLDP’s programming in the DR to train...

On May 13-27, CLDP, in cooperation with the Dominican Republic’s (DR) General Directorate for Public Procurement (DGCP), conducted a series of virtual sessions to present comments and recommendations for improving the DR’s new draft public procurement law. CLDP worked with a group of U.S...