The 7Up3 project aims to develop the capacity of national stakeholders including policy makers, regulators, civil society organisations, academicians and the media through a participatory process to understand prevailing competition concerns from the national, regional and international perspective, and enable them to contribute appropriately to the development and implementation of national competition regimes.
In order to develop a core cadre of professionals (within the civil society, business community and the government stakeholder groups) with basic understanding on competition policy and law and its inter-relationship with sectoral regulation and consumer welfare a group of 25-30 people in each country were identified and the ‘National Reference Group’ (NRG) constituted. The NRG members would be sensitised on relevant competition related issues through periodic dialogues, seminars and trainings over the project period.
It is expected that the NRG would act as the ‘missionaries’ of the 7Up3 project, and help in sensitising other key people of the objectives and the anticipated outcomes of the project.