Regional workshops
The Project organizes regional workshops in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, the Pacific and Central and Eastern Europe, starting in January 2003.

Workshop format
The workshop format is designed to cover activities over a period of two to five working days. The curriculum offers a combination of lectures, case studies and simulation exercises selected and developed to address the specific interests of developing countries as trading and investment partners. 

Target audience
Each workshop hosts 30 participants selected from among government officials, academics, practising lawyers and representatives of business associations of developing countries. 

Participants are expected to pay for their travel, subsistence and medical expenses.

Forthcoming Workshops

• 4 – 6 September 2007, Workshop on WTO dispute settlement procedures: WTO Agreements on Antidumping, Subsidies and Safeguards. This Workshop hosts participants from 22 OIC Member States
  
  
• 4 - 26 April 2007, Tenggarong, Kutai Kartanegara, Indonesia - Workshop on Dispute Settlement in International Trade, Investment and Intellectual Property
  
  
• 7 - 29 April 2007, Jakarta, Indonesia - Intensive Capacity Building Workshop on the Settlement of Disputes in International Investment, Trade and Intellectual Property and through Regional Mechanisms. This Workshop hosts participants of Member States of the D-8 Organization for Development Cooperation.
  
  
• 6 June 2007, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, TBT and Agriculture and Dispute Settlement - UNCTAD - Ministry of Commerce & Industry of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Workshops offered

• The Settlement of Investment Disputes, Jakarta,  29 – 30 may 2006 - organized by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in cooperation with the International Centre for Investment Disputes (ICSID). 
• WTO Dispute Settlement in Agriculture, 31 October – 2 November 2005, Stellenbosch/Cape Town, South Africa
  African Regional Workshop organized by UNCTAD in cooperation with Tralac 
• Settlement of Investment Disputes, Bangkok, 18-21 July 2005
• Introduction to Dispute Settlement
• Introduction to International Commercial Arbitration
• Online Dispute Settlement
• Dispute Settlement at ICSID
• Introduction to Dispute Settlement at WTO
• WTO Dispute Settlement on Basic Rules of Trade in Goods, Services and Intellectual Property
• WTO Dispute Settlement on Textiles and Agriculture
• WTO Dispute Settlement on Commercial Defence Measures
• WTO Dispute Settlement on SPS and TBT
• Regional Approaches to Dispute Settlement 
  

Distance learning
To complement the regional workshops and as a means to disseminate training to a broad audience, a distance learning course will be developed.

Workshops held

• Workshop on "An Introduction to WTO dispute settlement", Managua, 11-13 August 2004
   

• Workshop on WTO Dispute Settlement Commercial Defense Measures, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 21-23 June 2004
   

• An Introduction to WTO Dispute Settlement, regional, regional Workshop in Guatemala City, Guatemala, 18 to 20 February 2004 
  

• Introduction to WTO dispute settlement, Sao Paulo, 2-4 July 2003
  

• WTO dispute settlement on commercial defence measures, Bangkok, 11 - 13 June 2003
  

• Introduction to WTO dispute settlement, Hellenbrock, 26-28 March 2003
  

• Introduction to WTO dispute settlement, Bangkok, 27-29 January 2003