The International Competition Network (ICN), in collaboration with the World Bank Group, is glad to announce the launch of the 2025 Competition Advocacy Contest.
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The Competition Advocacy Contest highlights how competition agencies and regulators promote competition by showcasing their successful advocacy stories.
The ICN defines competition advocacy as “activities that promote a competitive environment through non-enforcement mechanisms, such as building relationships with government entities, increasing public awareness of competition’s benefits, and identifying and removing anti-competitive policies and regulations.”
Success stories from competition agencies and other public or civil society organizations that demonstrate tangible results of competition advocacy are the main focus of the program.
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The four thematic concentrations of the program include:
- Supporting resilient and competitive value chains to enable private investment, jobs, and consumer welfare.
- Embedding competition principles in policies to manage state assets: SOEs, privatization, and public-private partnerships.
- Enhancing public procurement and curbing bid rigging for government savings.
- Advancing competition through public-private dialogue.
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To be considered eligible for the program:
- The program is open to competition agencies, sector regulators, and other government bodies and non-governmental organizations promoting competition policy.
- Applicants that are not members of the ICN should reach out to ICN members in their jurisdiction and inform them about their intention to participate in the program. Joint submissions from ICN members and government bodies or non-governmental organizations are accepted.
- The applicant must complete the online survey.
- Stories submitted to previous editions of the contest that were not awarded are eligible to apply.
The deadline for applications is January 24, 2025. Click HERE (https://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2024/12/06/competition-advocacy-contest-2025#3) to apply.
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