GTV covered the ICTD’s workshop on Gender and Tax in Africa, which was held in Accra in November.
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Media Coverage
Ghana TV: Gender and Tax in Africa
Senior Advisor Doris Akol on TADAT-IMF Podcast on Gender and Revenue Administration
ICTD senior advisor Doris Akol took part to the third TADAT podcast on June 30, 2021 to discuss improving gender equality within tax administration, drawing on her experience as former Commissioner General of the Uganda Revenue Authority. The TADAT podcast is a special collaborative series by the International Monetary Fund’s Fiscal Affairs Department and the TADAT Secretariat. This episode was moderated by Ms. Vicki Perry, Deputy Director, Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF, with guests speakers being Ms. Doris Akol and Ms. Deborah Jenkins, Deputy Commissioner, Small Business at the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). The episode is available here.
Vanessa van den Boogaard blog mentioned in Tax Notes featured analysis
ICTD researcher Vanessa van den Boogaard’s blog, “Fill the gaps, feel the pain: Insights from Sierra Leone on an epidemic’s impact on local taxation, public services, and the poor” was mentioned in Tax Notes’ featured analysis “Gender Blind Isn’t Gender Neutral: Why Tax Policy Responses to COVID-19 Must Consider Women” by Michelle Harding, Grace Perez-Navarro, and Hannah Simon. The piece was original published on the OECD Ecoscope blog here.
Dr. Jalia Kangave interviewed at UN on tax and sustainable development
In February, the Platform for Collaboration on Tax hosted its first global conference on “Taxation and the Sustainable Development Goals” at the United Nations headquarters. ICTD’s Capacity Building Manager Dr Jalia Kangave was interviewed live by UNDESA, discussing issues of taxation and inequality, gender, and accountability in Africa.