For over a decade, the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) have partnered with Book Sprints to transform international policy-making with a dozen Book Sprints. What began in 2014 with ... read more
The Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) of the U.S. Department of Commerce is tasked with advancing legal frameworks and empowering enforcement officials worldwide. When CLDP needed to produce a comprehensive field manual to combat the illicit trade of counterfeit goods, ... read more
What happens when you place top international lawyers and mediation experts in a room and ask them to participate in a collaborative policy writing – in five days? You might anticipate endless debates, overlapping edits, and fierce clashes of opinion. Instead, ... read more
In our ongoing partnership, the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) now tackled one of Africa’s most pressing issues—sustainably financing national health systems. With the support of the Gates Foundation, a Book Sprint was held in Marrakesh, Morocco, from November 10 ... read more
The Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) and Book Sprints have partnered again, executing an impressive feat: the rapid creation of a policy primer on Technology Transfer. This intensive process produced a complete handbook in just five days, showcasing not only ... read more
A publication first of its kind, the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) responded to the call of its Regional Member Countries (RMCs) to develop a manual focused on understanding and implementing Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) in the mining sector. This ... read more
What if you could transform your team’s collective expertise into a published handbook in just a few days? This is exactly what the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) did in a recent Book Sprint last July. In a ... read more
Two years ago, we ran a Book Sprint with our long-time partner and Book Sprints champion Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP). A diverse group of thirteen experts — government officials, engineers, public policy experts, lawyers, and academics — gathered together ... read more
This September 23-27, 2024, we went to Morocco with 16 authors for a Book Sprint organized with the Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) to write the 2nd Edition of their book ‘Understanding Power Project Financing’ from their Understanding series. They ... read more
Last March 18 to 22, 2024, 17 authors invited by the African Legal Support Facility came together in a hybrid set-up to write an update on the Understanding Sovereign Debt in Africa handbook written with Book Sprints back in 2019. ... read more
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