HO-South South Cap.Bldg. 2019-2020 South South capacity building Project
Oxfam Novib's Finance for Development (F4D) Theory of Change is part of our overall StrategicPartnership with the Dutch government. Through the F4D program we strive to reduce extreme economic inequality viafiscal justice. Fiscal justice is about people being able to exercise their rights by monitoring and influencing fiscal systems to make them fair, tomobilize greater revenue and increase and improve spending for quality public services for all. Deliberate political and economic choices can lead to less economic inequality, enhanced social justice and better functioning democracies. F4D is operational in 9 countries.
The key objective of the Strategic Partnership is to develop the influencing capacity ofSouthern civil society actors so they can play a more political role of watch dog and being an influencing actor. This involves strengthening their technical influencing skills and thematic knowledge to ensure partners' influencing work is context specific and impactful. Together with stronger Southern influencing actors we build a worldwide influencing network. And as part of this worldwide influencing network we leverage national advocacy agendas in Oxfam's international influencing work.

Partners have indicated they want to become stronger in the following areas: Influencing Public Spending Decisions; Political Capture; Gender Responsive Budgets; advocacy and campaign strategy development, power and political economy analysis and the use of tax advocacy and monitoring tools to generate evidence and data to feed national and global influencing work.
The South South capacity building project seeks to build the capacity of partners through a number of interventions, thereby recognizing the power of peer to peer learning and learning by doing:

Via the Mutual Capacity Development (MCD) project our network, consisting of influencing partner organizations, country teams and the Even it Up team, share knowledge, experience and skills towards more effective fiscal justice interventions.  The mutuality of this intervention lies in the network character: by combining roles, locations, peer to peer exchange of expertise and capacities and by mutually enforcing capacitiesto better lobby and campaign (EvenitUp!). In the coming two years therefore, the MCD project  facilitates the strengthening of partner civil society organizations technical capacities on public spending, education and health and budget advocacy, Domestic ResourceMobilization, InternationalFinancial Institutions, political capture and labor in order to conduct technically sound research to influence decision; to successfully influence regional frameworks; to strengthen capacity of partners on fiscal justice via a small grant facility  andtostrengthen the global learning network consisting off Oxfam CO staff and partners (Knowledge Hub).
The Fair Tax Monitor (FTM) is a unique evidence-based advocacy tool that identifies the main bottlenecks within tax systems and provides strong evidence for advocacy work at national and international level. Currently 9 countries are participating: Senegal, Tunisia, Nigeria, Uganda, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia and is yielding significant body of knowledge of taxation in the targeted countries. In the next 2 years hands on support will be provided to strengthen the advocacy journeys of the countries based on their national research findings. Hence, they will be supported to implement the research and to developinfluencingstrategies easy to understand messages based on the research.  Via peer/expert review workshops linking <(>&<)> learning and alliance building are facilitated.

Roving Flexible Campaign support is available to strengthen partners# influencing and campaigning capacity  to strengthen the interaction between our global and local campaign work. This short-term additional support comes next to regular capacity building support and allows partners to actively participate our the global campaign ShePays thePrice or in global campaign moments when our global inequality reports are launched. Flexible campaign support could consist of hands on support to publish national inequality reports or to develop evidence-based influencing strategies fit for the local context,provide thematic trainings on gender responsive budgeting and to provide small funds to organize local campaign activities that generate additional visibility,media attention and the engagement of local men and women so they can raise theirvoice.