Diakonia 2018-2023 Befrämja inhemsk resursmobilisering i Afrika söder om Sahara Diakonia 2018-2023 Promoting Domestic Resource Mobilisation Sub-Saharan Africa Diakonia has applied to Sida for SEK 65.7 million to implement a program to improve domestic resource mobilization in Africa 2018-2021. Diakonia and its regional partners – AFRODAD, Tax Justice Network Africa and Transparency International Kenya, and possibly two or three more organizations – will convince the regional parliaments of East Africa, West Africa and South Africa to work for

1.1.	Reduced tax competition in line with the Africa Tax Administration Forums Agreement on Mutual Assistance in Tax Matters

1.2.	Reduced illegal money flows by specifying the recommendations in the African Union's Report of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa

2.	Improved management of public debt in line with the Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa (MEFMI) Regional Protocol on Finance and Investment (MEFMI is a former Sida partner)

3.	Increased openness in mining, etc. through the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the African Mining Vision

The program will also

4.	Strengthen the capacity of the regional partners (i.e., AFRODAD, Tax Justice Network Africa and Transparency International Kenya, and two or three more organizations). 

Sida is the only financier of the program.

The original agreement was until December 2022, but a decision to extend the agreement with one year, until December 2023, and adding an additional 15 M SEK was decided in November 2022. Diakonia har ansökt till Sida om SEK 65,7 miljoner för att genomföra ett program för att förbättra inhemsk resursmobilisering i Afrika 2018–2021.  Diakonia och deras regionala partners – AFRODAD, Tax Justice Network Africa och Transparency International Kenya samt eventuellt ytterligare två eller tre organisationer – ska övertyga de regionala parlamenten i Östafrika, Västafrika och Södra Afrika att verka för

1.1.Minskad skattekonkurrens i linje med Africa Tax Administration Forums Agreement on Mutual Assistance in Tax Matters

1.2.Minskade olagliga penningflöden genom att konkretisera rekommendationerna i den Afrikanska unionens Report of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa

2.Förbättrad hantering av offentliga skulder i linje med Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa (MEFMI) Regional Protocol on Finance and Investment 

3.Ökad öppenhet i gruvnäring genom Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative och African Mining Vision

Programmet ska också

4.Stärka Diakonias regionala partners (dvs AFRODAD, Tax Justice Network Africa, Transparency International Kenya samt  ytterligare två eller tre organisationer) kapacitet. 
Sida är programmets enda finansiär.
Ursprungligen sträckte sig avtalet till slutet av 2022 men en förlängning med ett år - tom december 2023 - och ytterligare 15 M SEK fattades i november 2022. The development objective is improved living conditions for rights holders in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) through increased domestic resource mobilization in the SADC, EAC and ECOWAS member states. More specifically:
1) Regional parliaments promote Regional Economic Communities (RECs) as single investment areas through implementing common tax regimes in line with the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) Framework and African Union High Level Panel recommendations on illicit financial flows and by encouraging member states to establish beneficial ownership registers and transfer pricing units
2) Regional parliaments will be convinced to hold the council of ministers accountable for prudent public debt management in line with the SADC Finance and Investment Protocol.
3) Regional parliaments will be convinced to encourage member states to implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and the African Mining Vision (AMV).
4) The institutional and administrative capacity of Diakonia’s regional partners implementing the program will be increased, by assessing partners’ capacity needs, developing and implementing capacity strengthening plans for each partner, and assisting the partners in applying for observer status with the three regional economic organizations.