On October 1 and 28, CLDP conducted workshops for Peru's Supervisory Body for State Contracting (OSCE)’s procurement professors on Teaching Methodologies and Facilitation Techniques. This interactive workshop was a two-part workshop series. The first workshop focused on various classroom and virtual...

On November 17, CLDP, in collaboration with the American Chamber of Commerce of Peru, USAID Peru, and the U.S. Embassy in Peru, hosted a private sector round table on best practices to improve the effectiveness of infrastructure procurements. USAID Mission Director Jene Thomas provided opening...

On October 14, CLDP, in collaboration with the Dominican General Directorate for Public Contracting, hosted an academic panel on sustainable public procurement practices with representatives from The George Washington University, El Rosario University from Colombia, and Austral University from...

On October 14, CLDP, in collaboration with the Dominican General Directorate for Public Contracting and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, hosted a workshop on international experiences in developing regulation and policy for sustainable public procurement. The workshop provided...

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...