GMT summit panel member ACER training and confrence in Namibia BRICS Conference associates, academics and partner organisations including competition authorities, regulators and government departments across East and Southern Africa. Research is translated into action through working directly on competition cases and inquiries; providing practical training for competition authorities and regulators; and providing advice and inputs on industrial policies. In 2005, CCRED worked on three market inquiries (in Kenya, South Africa and Zambia), and offered training for authorities with the Namibian Competition Commission. CCRED currently also has ongoing research projects for the CCSA (2024-2026). One of these involves assessing prices and margins for essential food products in South Africa against appropriate international benchmarks to evaluate impacts of different levels of competition on prices, and one on the participation of SMMEs and understanding competitive constraints. The annual African Competition and Economic Regulation (ACER) Week is a flagship conference and capacity-building programme in partnership with host country competition authorities in different African countries. CCRED was contracted as part of the Competition Policy and Power Research Fund with SOMO (Netherlands) to carry out research over 2024-2026 on expanding enforcement in challenging environments through the use of market enquiries to tackle concentration and abuse in agri-food markets in the global south to contribute to the COMESA Competition Commission’s development of a framework for its new market enquiries provision. 56 57 College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2025 College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2025
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