Tax Justice and Illicit Financial Flows for African Journalists.
Course Description
Are you an African business and/or investigative journalist? Do you have some level of proven experience in reporting on tax and domestic resource mobilisation issues in Africa? Are you interested in enhancing your knowledge and skills in covering tax justice and illicit financial flows issues in Africa? Are you able to commit to attend a fully online covered training? Then this is the right course for you.
This 6-week course will guide you on how to develop your current research, investigative and reporting skills towards becoming a tax justice champion within your own or collective space. You will be onboarded onto an institutional Learning Management System platform, where you will be introduced to the operations, get an overview of the training areas, access training materials and interact with your trainers through the stages of the course. You will be facilitated through live sessions for in depth learning, share your own experiences and learn from both your facilitators and fellow journalists. In order to connect learning with real practice, the course will allow you a post workshop self-paced learning process that will culminate to formation of an informal peer learning and support network to serve you while back at your duty station. Upon successful completion of the training, you will be certified as an active participant in readiness for the work ahead.
What Will I learn
Upon completion of the course, you will be able to:
1. Proficiently articulate, and actively, accurately and regularly report on critical and emerging tax justice and illicit financial flows issues in Africa.
2. Write short-form stories highlighting tax-related illicit financial flows issues or challenges within your home country/region.
3. Participate in the formation of a peer learning and support network of tax justice journalists. with clear objectives.
4. Participate in the development of collaborative tax-related illicit financial flows stories with fellow participants.
Target Audience
Practicing African business and investigative journalists with basic knowledge in reporting on tax and domestic resource mobilisation issues in Africa and with capacity building needs in covering tax justice and illicit financial flows issues in Africa.
Materials Included
Case studies, learning videos, glossary of key terms, reading materials, reflective questions and session related quizzes, session specific power point slides.
Requirements to undertake the course
1. Have successfully expressed a personal interest in participating through an official application form.
2. You must fill in an official online registration form and receive a formal invitation to participate.