Happy Hour on Tax Justice 1. Enhance knowledge and skills of non-government organizations and civil society organizations in Viet Nam on financial justice. Main issues of this project are income inequality, tax justice and budget allocation and spendings for the poor.
2. Build and developnetworks of active activist in financial justice through discussions, sharing, exchanges and network connection.
3. Point out issues requiring policy advocacy towards just public financial policies for the poor. From this basis, in the future,Oxfam and partners can build policy advocacy programs to enhance the justice of the public financial policy system of Viet Nam.To achieve the above targets, VEPR proposes the following activities:
1. Organize series of talks and sharings on different issues of financial justice
Accordingly, on the last Friday of each month, VEPR, in cooperation with Oxfam, will organize talks on different issues of financial justice. Participants are those from non-government organizations, civil society organizations,research institutes, activists, journalists# and those who are interested in the issues.
Agendas of the following events will be built in a way to gradually provide participants comprehensive knowledge on different aspects of financial justice. Normally, in each event, there will be 01-02 speakers and 01moderator.
Interaction between speakers and audiences will be focused. Each talk consists of two sections:
After each talk, expertsof VEPR will write reports on the event. Contents of the report include presentation of speakers, discussions, recommendations (i.e., further research, proposed intervention and so on) and experiences to learn from what should be improved.
In the first talk, VEPRwill conduct quick assessment on knowledge and expectationofparticipants. Accordingly, a short questionnaire will be given to participants to collect information on: (i) understanding of respondents on financial justice; (ii) expectation of respondents on Happy Hour Talks; (iii) recommendations on the organizationof events.
After each talk, VEPR will also collect feedbacks of participants andspeakers on the effectiveness and the organization of the events to have better events in the future.
2. Build network
One of the important target of the Project is to build a network of activists in financial justice. To achieve this target, VEPR recommends building data on organizations, individuals in this area, interests and strengths of each activist to better contribute to the network in the future; organize team-building activities such as create a group on facebook to discuss on interested issues, encourage information sharing among participants during and after the events.
After interaction with participants, VEPR will conduct research and propose detailed recommendations to build one or many networks of activists in financial justice.
The fanpage will be updated regularly with at least 01 post/week before each event. The events will be livestreamed on facebook. After the event, the minutes will be posted, as well as academic materials. VEPR will collaborate with EPH to effectively launch communication campaign for the event. Nameof the fanpage will be decided by VEPR and EPH after the discussion in July 2017.
3. Conduct research and write report on analyzingopportunities for policy advocacy and supervising the implementation of policies on financial justice in the period of 2017-2023.
Target audience of the Project are NGOs, CSOs and activists.
The Report analyzes systematically current policies on financial justice and the plans on issuing policies of the National Assembly and the Government in the next 05 years in order to point out opportunities for policy advocacy and supervising the implementation of policies.
The Report will bring an overall picture on the current status of financial justice of Viet Nam for NGOs and CSOs. Therefore, these organizations can design their own policy advocacy in the period of20 17-2013.
In the future, the Report can be used as introduction material for new membersof Tax Justice Alliance.