Tax Justice Network Africa
For A Program To Promote More Equitable Tax Systems In Africa
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Amount$496,726
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Program
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Date Awarded11/17/2014
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
Tax Justice Network-Africa (TJN-A) brings together 23 civil society groups from across five African countries to promote socially just and progressive taxation systems in Africa while also representing African perspectives in international tax reform discussions. This grant would help TJN-A to generate empirical evidence on the costs of ineffective tax regimes and to advocate for the pro-poor tax policies that are necessary to fund broad-based access to social services. TJN-A would also strengthen the capacity of national tax coalitions and enlist the support of the media and trade unions to ensure that African countries adopt responsible tax practices.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.taxjusticeafrica.net
Address
Jaflo Brookside, House no. 3
106 Brookside Drive, Nairobi, Kenya
Grants to this Grantee
for support of Nawi’s thinking hub on social reproduction and care economies in Africa
Nawi ”“ Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective and the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) are co-creating a thinking hub to develop an African feminist theory and narrative of the care economy. The knowledge produced through the hub will contribute to broader decolonized theorizations on social reproduction from an African and Global South vantage point. This grant to Tax Justice Network Africa, which serves as the fiscal host for Nawi, will establish the thinking hub and enable Nawi and MISR to invest in institutional strengthening. (Strategy: International Women's Economic Empowerment)
for support of TJNA’s executive transition, institutional strengthening, and sustainability plans
Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) is a growing regional network of 44 civil society organizations including think tanks; trade unions; feminists; and youth-led, faith-based, and community-based organizations spread across 25 African countries. TJNA advocates for pro-poor tax policies and strengthening tax systems to promote domestic resource mobilization by challenging harmful investment practices, improving international tax transparency, and restoring the sovereignty of natural resources back to African countries. This organizational effectiveness grant will support TJNA to ensure enhanced organizational sustainability and a successful leadership transition. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment).
for general operating support
Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) is a regional growing network of 44 civil society organizations (CSOs) spread across 25 African countries. It is composed of think tanks, feminist groups, youth-led organizations, and community-based organizations, among other types of CSOs. TJNA envisions a just, prospering, self-reliant, and integrated Africa sustainably harnessing its resources to enable its people to lead a dignified life. The network advocates for pro-poor tax policies and strengthening tax systems to promote domestic resource mobilization by challenging harmful investment practices, improving international tax transparency, and restoring the sovereignty of natural resources back to African countries. TJNA’s 2021-25 strategic vision is to mobilize African citizens and challenge public institutions to influence and change policy to enable tax justice to prevail on the continent. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
