Conference on Domestic Resource Mobilization and Illicit Financial Flows
From 12-14 March 2019, Module 1-3 of the conference on improving Domestic Resource Mobilization and stemming Illicit Financial Flows took place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Upper Hill, Nairobi. On this Website we will collect and make accessible publicly available information, e.g.
- the Final Conference Report and its Executive Summary
- short biographies of contributors (if available),
- written statements/PPT presentations of contributors (below)
- summary reports of the discussions (below)
- selected media reports and online discussion
- selected pictures.
Module 1: To See – empirical findings of the Kenyan country research
12 March
Time | Activity |
8.30 – 9.00 | Arrival and Registration |
9.00 – 9.15 | Welcome and Introduction Dr. Elias Mokua, Director, Jesuit Hakimani Centre, Nairobi |
9.15 – 10.00 | Opening Keynote: Reinventing Tax Justice to Achieve Social Justice – Current Challenges, Future Opportunities |
10.00–10.15 | Tea Break |
10.15–11.00 | Presentation of the Kenya Country Report: “Tax Justice and Poverty; Narrowing Wealth Gap and Public Dependence on External Financing” Pascal Pax Andebo, Research and Advocacy Officer, Jesuit Hakimani Centre, Nairobi (Report) (Executive Summary) (PPT) |
11.00-12.30 | Panel Discussion on the Report;
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12.30 – 2.30 | Lunch |
2.30 – 3.30 | Five parallel Issue Specific Panel Discussions |
Panel 1: Tax Exemptions and Tax Expenditures – Corporate Taxation Dr. Rose Fumpa-Makano, Copperbelt University: a complementary view from Zambia (Bio) (PPT) (Background) Dr. Charles Orero, KRA School, Nairobi Kenya Dr. Agustin Redonda, Council on Economic Policies (CEP), Zurich (Switzerland) (Bio) (PPT) (Background) Notes of Panel discussion | |
Panel 2: Bribery and Corruption vs. Tax Revenue Mobilization Charles Ayamdoo, Chief Legal Officer and Director, Anti-Corruption at Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice: a complementary view from Ghana (Bio) (Presentation) Alexis Nkurunziza, State of the Union and CNC Coordinator: a complementary view from Rwanda (Bio) (Presentation) Samuel Kimeu, Executive Director, Transparency International (TI), Kenya (Bio) (Presentation) Notes of Panel discussion | |
Panel 3: Trade Misinvoicing as part of IFFs Tom Cardamone, Managing Director, Global Financial Integrity (GFI), Washington, DC: Complementary information from other parts of Africa (Bio) (Background) Dr. Maximilian Mainza, Head, Economics Department, Copperbelt University, Kitwe Zambia: a complementary view from Zambia (Bio) (PPT) Elsy Sainna, Deputy Executive Director of International Commission of Jurists, Nairobi (Bio) (Presentation) (Background) Notes of Panel discussion | |
Panel 4: Tax Policy, Legislation, Administration and democratic participation Caxton Masudi, Deputy Director, Domestic Taxes Department, KRA Mary Ongore, Lecturer & Tutorial Fellow, Private Law Department, University of Nairobi (Bio) (PPT) Michael Otieno, Governance Advisor, National Taxpayers Association, Kenya (Bio)(PPT) Notes of Panel discussion | |
Panel 5: Taxing private wealth better Felix Mutati, Association of Chartered Certified Accountant, Minister of Finance (rtd.) London: A complementary view from Zambia (Bio) Joy Ndubai, Global Tax Advisor, Action Aid, Kenya Kwame Owino, CEO, Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), Kenya Notesof Panel discussion | |
3.30-3.45 | Tea Break |
3.45 – 4.45 | Drawing together findings, outlook to Module 2, 3 & 4 |
4.45 – 5.00 | Concluding Remarks |
5.00 | Evening Tea, opportunity for deepening findings, networking, tentative cooperation… |
Departure |
Module 2: To judge – ethical foundations of any research
13 March, morning
Time | Activity |
8.30 – 9.00 | Arrival and Registration |
9.00 – 9.30 | Opening Remarks – Introduction on the conflict between the Neoliberal World Order and Catholic Social Teaching and its implication for the tax justice debate Dr. Jörg Alt, Research & Advocacy Officer, Jesuitenmission, Nürnberg (Bio) (Presentation) (PPT) |
9.30 – 10.30 | 4 Presentations on Tax Justice and social justice Prof. Willy Moka, PhD, Dean of Faculty for Philosophy, Loyola University, Kinshasa, DR Kongo (Bio) (Presentation) Prof. Dr. Thomas Pogge, Yale University (USA), Global Justice Project (Bio) (Notes) Prof. Dr. Attiya Waris, Commercial Law Department, University of Nairobi (Bio) (PPT) Chris Morgan, Head of Global Tax Policy, KPMG London (Bio) (Presentation) (PPT) |
10.30 – 10.45 | Break-Tea |
10.45-11.45 | Discussion of the four presenters, Discussion with attending public |
11.45 – 12.00 | Observations, concluding remarks |
12.00-12.30 | Lunch, departure |
Module 3: To act – improving national and international policies
13 March, afternoon
Time | Activity |
12.30 – 1.00 | Arrival and Registration, snacks |
1.00 – 1.15 | Introduction – Opening Remarks Charles B. Chilufya, Director, Social Justice and Ecology Office, Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar, Nairobi |
1.15 – 1.30 | Findings from the Joint Synthesis Report of the research on “Tax Justice & Poverty” Dr. Jörg Alt, Research & Advocacy Officer, Jesuitenmission, Nürnberg (Bio) (Statement short) (PPT) |
| 1.30-1.45 | Comment: Putting findings of research into an all-African perspective Dr. Fanwell Kenala Bokosi, Chief Executive Officer, AFRODAD, Harare, Zimbabwe (Bio) (PPT) |
1.45 – 2.10 | The top 1% of private and corporate wealth: How to make its resources better serve the Common Good of All Max Lawson, Head of Inequality Policy, Oxfam-International, Nairobi (Bio) (PPT) |
2.10 – 2.35 | A short list of things governments could do to tackle IFFs Dr. Raymond Baker, President, Global Financial Integrity, Washington DC (Bio) (PPT) |
2.35 – 3.00 | From tax competition to tax cooperation: Findings from the new book on Global Tax Justice Prof. Dr. Thomas Pogge, Yale University (USA), Global Justice Project (Bio) (PPT) |
3.00 – 3.15 | Break Tea |
3.15 – 4.15 | Panel 1 Increasing transparency and accountability Prof. Binh Tran-Nam, PhD, School of Business Law and Taxation, University of New South Wales, Australia (Bio) (Background paper) (PPT) Rachel Etter-Phoya, Tax Justice Network Afrika Anglophone Hub Researcher, Malawi (Bio) (PTT) Daniel Ndirangu, Head of Open Budgets Program, Institute for Public Finance, Kenya (Presentation) (PPT) |
4.15 – 4.30 | Break Tea |
4.30 – 5.30 | Panel 2 International legal cooperation Joseph Stead, Senior Policy Analyst, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD (PPT) Michael Sell, Seitz Partners, former Head of Tax Department at the German Federal Ministry of Finance (PPT) Musonda Kabinga, Governance Manager, Tax Coordinator, Action Aid Zambia, Lusaka (Bio) (PPT) |
5.30 – 5.45 | Observations, Concluding remarks |
Supper – Socializing, over supper award ceremony in honour of this years’ winner of the Amartya Sen Prize competition, Janet Adeogun (Bio) (Prizewinning Essay) and Kenneth OKpomo (Bio) (Prizewinning Essay). |
Module 3, continued, 14 March
Time | Activity |
8.30 – 9.30 | Panel 3 National and International administrative cooperation Felix Mutati, Association of Chartered Certified Accountant, Minister of Finance (rtd.) London: A complementary view from Zambia (Bio) Justine Bagyenda, Executive Director, Bank of Uganda, Financial Intelligence Authority, Uganda Anti-Money Laundering Committee (rtd.) (Bio) (PPT) OAR Steffen Scholze, Joint Tax Audit Coordinator, Federal Central Tax Office, Germany (PPT) |
9.30 – 9.45 | Break Tea |
9.45 – 10.45 | Panel 4 DRM/IFFs/good financial governance as part of developmental aid Opimbi Osore, Africa hub regional coordinator for GIZ IFF Global program for combatting Illicit Financial Flows (Bio) (PPT) Dr. Fanwell Kenala Bokosi, Chief Executive Officer, AFRODAD, Harare, Zimbabwe (Bio) (PPT) Aggrey Owino, Head of Knowledge Management, Tax and Advisory Policy, Kenya Revenue Authority (PPT) |
10.45 – 12.00 | Lunch |
12.00 – 1.30 | Wrap up: Increasing Domestic Revenue Mobilization and Stemming IFFs – Key for Sustainable Development – Focus on EU-AU cooperation Jerome Benausse for the Head of Cooperation, EU-Delegation Nairobi, previously Head of Sector for Domestic Resource Mobilization at DG-DEVCO, Brussels (Presentation) Jason Braganza, Deputy Executive Director, Tax Justice Network Africa (Bio) Felix Mutati, Association of Chartered Certified Accountant, Minister of Finance (rtd.) London: A complementary view from Zambia (Bio) Michael Sell, Seitz Partners, former Head of Tax Department at the German Federal Ministry of Finance Joseph Stead, Senior Policy Analyst, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD |
1.30 – 2.00 | Concluding Unit Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, President of the Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar |
Module 4: The way ahead in Kenya
After evaluating the previous conference and strategizing the translations of its findings for Kenya and the countries of the East African Community, this Module will aim to educate, engage and mobilize local and national stakeholder and bind them together in Joint Advocacy.The date will be announced by the Jesuit Hakimani Centre, for this watch <https://jesuithakimani.net/> |