Welcome to TJNA Capacity Building
Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) is a pan-African network established in 2007, with a current membership of 51 organisations based and operating in 26 African countries. The network envisions a new Africa where tax justice prevails, to contribute to an equitable, inclusive, and sustainable development. TJNA’s mission is to spearhead tax justice in Africa’s development by enabling citizens and institutions to promote equitable tax systems through policy influencing mobilise African citizens and challenge public institutions to influence and change policy to enable tax justice to prevail in Africa. The coordination of the network’s activities is delivered by a secretariat based in Nairobi, Kenya.
TJNA seeks to promote socially just, accountable, and progressive taxation systems in Africa. This is by advocating for tax policies with pro-poor outcomes and tax systems that curb public resource leakages and enhance domestic resource mobilisation. It aims to achieve this by challenging harmful tax policies and practices that on one hand facilitate illicit financial outflows of resources and on the other hand favour the wealthy, while aggravating and perpetuating inequality.
The entire work portfolio of TJNA is structured and implemented within the confines of four strategic thematic areas that structurally keep the network mission alive. These are:
- Tax and the International Financial Architecture,
- Tax and Investments,
- Tax and Natural Resources Governance, and
- Tax and Equity.
Who we are
Capacity building is a key approach that TJNA employs to achieve its change and transformation agenda. This approach enables us to identify, engage and develop capacities of individuals and entities working as agents of transformation within the tax justice space.
Our Capacity Building goal is to build sustainable competence for effective, responsive and efficient performance within the Network and of our partners to realise development impact within the tax justice system.
Our capacity building initiatives are structured within the framework of 6 main modules viz
- Foundations of taxation.
- Tax justice.
- International taxation.
- Tax transparency and accountability.
- Taxation of natural resources.
- Tax expenditure.
What we do
Our capacity building work is tailored along the lines of delivering training workshops, facilitating peer learning events, conducting mentoring, coaching and other forms of accompaniment to individuals, groups, organisations and communities. Our main delivery avenues include:
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The International tax justice academy (ITJA)
This is our flagship capacity building program that is structured to address participants’ capacity needs at foundation, intermediate and advanced levels. -
Member and partner accompaniment processes
These entail contracted capacity building activities conducted for implementing partner organisations under the respective donor funded programs. They are majorly long term engagements guided by organisational capacity assessment processes. -
Other tailor made initiatives
These include demand driven training and other learning forums for sector specific expressed needs. Here, TJNA interventions are tailored based on mutual understanding on addressing the specific need.
In essence, our capacity building gives participants access to information and a dialogue platform to deepen their understanding of tax governance and its relationship to economic development, poverty reduction, and social justice.
Where we are
TJNA is at a crucial phase of revamping her capacity building work across board. This stems from a number of years of continuous running pockets of capacity building activities, including the International Tax Justice Academy. Surveys carried out in the past few years have influenced the need to have more structured, continuous and results oriented interventions that guarantee the necessary skills to engage in sustained advocacy work, constructive dialogue engagements, and progressive debate on tax justice issues.
TJNA has in the recent past reached over 390 participants, drawn from CSOs, trade unions, media, governments and academia. The participants have contributed enormously to raising awareness, strengthening policy capacity, and public mobilisation.