On 17 May 2011, academic competition experts and practitioners from competition authorities gathered at the 6 th IDRC pre-ICN Forum on Competition and Development to share experiences and discuss ways to build alliances for competition agencies in developing countries, in order to improve competition law enforcement and effectiveness of advocacy. The meeting was structured in four sessions: (i) the general case for alliance building, (ii) alliance building to offset or help to correct flaws in agency effectiveness, (iii) strategies to build a culture of compliance, and (iv) tools of competition enforcement in the remittance transfer market.