World Bank Group Competition Advocacy Contest 2025

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.

• Table of Content
• About World Bank
• Competition Advocacy Contest
• Aim and Benefits of Competition Advocacy Contest
• Interview date, Process and Venue for Competition Advocacy Contest
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About World Bank

With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries. Together, IBRD and IDA form the World Bank, which provides financing, policy advice, and technical assistance to governments of developing countries. IDA focuses on the world�s poorest countries, while IBRD assists middle-income and creditworthy poorer countries. While our five institutions have their own country m...... continue reading

Competition Advocacy Contest

Aim and Benefits of Competition Advocacy Contest

The contest is looking for success stories from competition agencies, other public bodies or civil society that demonstrate the tangible results of competition advocacy under four themes:

1. Supporting resilient and competitive value chains to enable private investment, jobs, and consumer welfare

2. Embedding competition principles in policies to manage state assets: SOEs, privatization and public private partnerships  

3. Enhancing public procurement and curbing bid rigging for government savings

4. Advancing competition through public-private dialogue

Interview date, Process and Venue for Competition Advocacy Contest

Submissions will undergo a rigorous assessment of the following criteria:

• Relevance of the competition issue tackled by the initiative;
• Success of the advocacy activity – results achieved;
• Impact and effects on markets, spillover effects and lessons learned;
• Advocacy strategy – creativity and originality, cooperation mechanisms deployed.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

• Competition agencies, sector regulators and other government bodies and non-governmental organizations promoting competition policy are welcome to apply.
• If you are not a member of the ICN, you should reach out to the ICN member in your jurisdiction to inform about your intention to participate in the contest. A list of all ICN members is available here. Joint submissions from ICN members and government bodies or non-governmental organizations are encouraged.
• In order to participate, candidates must complete the online survey

For more details, visit World Bank Group website