Tag: gender equality
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Driving Gender Equality in Tax Systems Across Africa: Project Updates
Six months into the Gender Equality in Taxation – Fair Tax Monitor (GET-FTM) Project, and tangible progress has been made. Supported by Expertise France, the initiative aims to reduce gender inequalities embedded in fiscal systems in Benin, Cameroon, and Senegal, ensuring tax policies better respond to the needs of women and girls. Since the project…
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10 Years of the FTM: Looking back & Looking forward
2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the Fair Tax Monitor (FTM). The FTM was developed within the joint Oxfam-TJNA CRAFT project which started in 2011. This project was facilitating a learning community of African and Asian CSOs that jointly worked to strengthen capacities on research and advocacy on fair taxation. As we celebrate this moment,…
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Fair Tax Monitor delivers training on tax & gender for civil society organizations in Senegal
This blog can also be accessed in French here. Group photo of participants at the training for civil society organizations involved in the Gender Equality in Taxation GET project As part of the ongoing partnership between the Fair Tax Monitor (FTM) and Expertise France through the Gender Equality in Taxation (GET) project, a training event…
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FTM Partners with Expertise France to Tackle Gender Inequality Through Tax Justice
By Henrique Alencar, Policy Advisor Tax and Inequality at Oxfam and Andrea Salazar Cardero, Intern with Oxfam Novib This article can also be accessed in French here. Building on a decade of dedicated efforts to highlight gender disparities in fiscal systems, the Fair Tax Monitor (FTM) has partnered with Expertise France. Specifically, this partnership seeks to…
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Beans and Ugali for Ugandan Politicians
Launch Fair Tax Monitor in Uganda big success Millions of Ugandans now know that the tax system in Uganda is not fair. The launch of the Fair Tax Monitor by Oxfam and partner SEATINI at the end of January was on the biggest national private television in Uganda (NTV), the radio and debated in many…