The International Competition Network (ICN) and the World Bank Group are pleased to announce the launch of the 2025 Competition Advocacy Contest. This contest aims to highlight the key role competition agencies, sector regulators and other governmental bodies or non-governmental organizations play in promoting competition by showcasing their advocacy success stories.
As defined by the ICN, competition advocacy refers to 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 anticompetitive policies and regulations.
They are looking for success stories from competition agencies, other public bodies or civil society that demonstrate the tangible results of competition advocacy under four themes:
- 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.