This media guide aims to provide journalists, editors, and media practitioners with a comprehensive understanding of Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs), progressive taxation, Reserved Lending and Domestic Resource Mobilisation (DRM). It provides practical guidance on reporting these topics to foster informed public discourse and inform policy-making for sustainable development and economic justice.
This guide is part of a larger programme called “Expose the Flow: Working Together to Curb IFFs in Sub-Saharan Africa (2023-2025)” and funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD). It is being implemented in Kenya, Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Tanzania. The ultimate vision, following the successful eradication of IFFs, is improved citizens’ lives, with the potential for a high-level impact, including more money available for public services and the economy, thereby enhancing public services and incomes.
The programme aims to improve the accountability, transparency, and effectiveness of domestic tax systems in target countries by strengthening the capacities of media and civil society and collaboration between them and other stakeholders on IFFs and taxation-related issues.
The media guide is funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) through Oxfam in Ghana. NORAD is an administrative and specialist body for development cooperation and supports the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Climate and the Environment in achieving the goals of Norwegian development policy and promoting sustainable development.
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