CLDP has been working with the business group Coalition Against Counterfeit and Illicit Trade (CACIT) and other members of the nascent IP interagency initiative to develop and implement an outreach and advocacy program with the twin goals of improving recognition and protection of the brands of...

CLDP and the Department of Justice, jointly with the Republic of Botswana Administration of Justice (AOJ), sponsored the three-day Regional Workshop on Intellectual Property Enforcement in the Southern Africa Region: The Adjudication of Cases. The program, held in Gaborone, Botswana, featured...

CLDP has a long history of work in Sub-Saharan Africa. Programs have had both a regional and individual country scope. Beginning in 1999, under the African Trade and Investment Program (ATRIP), a USAID initiative, CLDP assisted countries throughout West Africa with reforms in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), judicial case management, intellectual property rights, judicial ethics, and...

Since 1999, CLDP has engaged both governments and the private sector across the length and breadth of Sub-Saharan Africa, assisting countries from Nigeria, Cameroun, Ghana, Senegal, and Mali in West Africa, to Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania in East Africa, and Angola, Mozambique, Botswana, Malawi, and South Africa in Southern Africa.