From August 18-22, CLDP, in partnership with the Ministry of Finance of the Maldives and USAID, will conduct a workshop focused on drafting the Public Private Partnerships Act.

On May 22-23, CLDP, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Development Finance Corporation, and the United States Trade and Development Agency, conducted a workshop exchange focused on Port Financing. Public and private sector experts presented policies and infrastructure...

On May 29-30, CLDP, a workshop exchange focused on FIDIC Contracts and Disputes for participants from the Ministry of Construction and Infrastructure. The Fédération Internationale Des Ingénieurs-Conseils (FIDIC) produces standard-form contracts that are widely used in the construction and...

On May 27, CLDP, in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), held a launching workshop for the Methodology for Assessing Procurement Systems (MAPS). MAPS is an international standard assessment designed to evaluate a country’s public procurement system. The MAPS assessment will be...

From May 19-21, CLDP conducted a workshop on Commercial Mediation with participants from the Attorney General's Office of the Maldives. As a form of alternative dispute resolution, commercial mediation allows parties to efficiently and amicably work towards win-win solutions. The workshop included...

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 March 20-22, CLDP held a regional workshop on port financing and logistics in Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop convened port officials from the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Thailand, with officials from Singapore and the Philippines participating virtually. This program builds on CLDP’s...

On February 8-9, CLDP conducted a workshop on complaint management with the Maldives Ministry of Finance and other relevant agencies. The workshop focused on examples from the U.S. bid protest system and best practices in handling procurement complaints. CLDP’s programming with the Maldives seeks to...

From October 22 – 23, CLDP hosted a two-day Advanced Case Management Workshop for ADR Center Staff with experts and Centers from Hong Kong (Hong Kong International Arbitration Center), Sri Lanka (International ADR Center), Pakistan (Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration...

From November 7 to 11, CLDP hosted delegations from Bangladesh and the Maldives for a U.S. port sector consultation tour in New Orleans, Louisiana. The tour was designed to inform development and instill best practices in the Bangladeshi and Maldivian port sectors and included representatives from a...