The FTC helps countries around the world to develop and enhance their own competition and consumer protection work. By placing experienced attorneys and economists as resident advisors and conducting short-term training workshops, our experts provide on-the-job training and help develop the investigative and analytical skills of the agency staff.
Technical Assistance to Developing Competition and Consumer Protection Agencies
- For several decades, FTC lawyers and economists have helped countries with little experience to establish and strengthen framework competition and consumer protection laws or enforcement institutions. This includes training on basic investigative skills and techniques.
- A description of our work in the consumer protection and privacy areas can be found in U.S. Federal Trade Commission Consumer Protection and Privacy Technical Assistance Overview.
- On competition matters, we frequently work jointly with the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
- The FTC operates a program that offers fellowships at the FTC for foreign agency employees.
- The ICN has competition-related training materials available through Training on Demand.
Contact Us
If you are associated with a competition or consumer protection agency and need assistance with legislation, training of agency staff, institutional design, or related matters, please contact us.
How We're Funded
Our technical assistance program is, in many instances, funded through cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development, and in some cases with the U.S. Trade and Development Agency and the Commercial Law Development Program of the Department of Commerce. In some cases, we use our own funds.
Additional Information
- Joint Report Charting the Future Course of International Technical Assistance At the Federal Trade Commission and the United States Department of Justice (October 2009)