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📍LoGRI Chair @wilsonprichard.bsky.social recently attended the #ATI General Assembly 2025 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia!

Check out our event highlights here👇
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#ATIGA2025 #PropertyTax

📸 @ictdtax.bsky.social, International Tax Compact

Extending Property Taxation in Areas of Customary Authority and Tenure - The Local Government Revenue Initiative

An estimated 90% of all arable land in sub-Saharan Africa is under customary tenure - raising questions on how to expand #PropertyTax to these areas.

@wilsonprichard.bsky.social & Sripriya Srivatsa provide a high level framework for these questions in our latest brief ⬇️
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Financing Development: Gains and Gaps of the Sevilla Conference - ICTD While property taxes hold immense revenue potential in many lower-income countries, they were absent from the Compromiso de Sevilla.

"While #propertytaxes hold immense revenue potential in many lower- & middle-income countries, they were noticeably absent from the [...] the Compromiso de Sevilla."

Our colleagues from @logritax.bsky.social reflect on the #FfD4 summit ➡️ ow.ly/Oi5W50WwBiz

#FinancingOurFuture #TaxExperts

📬 The latest edition of our #newsletter is now available!

In it, we highlight exciting project and program updates - including our participation at #FfD4, the publication of our first working paper, and more!

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As the dust settles on the Fourth International Financing for Development Conference (#FfD4)🌍, Regan McCort, @wilsonprichard.bsky.social & @moyoarewa.bsky.social look at what the conference achieved and where it fell short of expectations.

Check out the full blog here 👇
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LoGRI Associate Niccolò F. Meriggi Awarded Prestigious Grant to Study Property Taxation in Western Africa - The Local Government Revenue Initiative The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded LoGRI Associate and Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University Niccolò F. Meriggi, a Talent Programme Veni Scheme grant to support a new research initiati...

🎉 Congrats to LoGRI Associate and @oxfordcsae.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @nmeriggi.bsky.social, who has been awarded an NWO Veni grant to study political barriers to effective property taxation and enforcement strategies in West Africa.

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Introducing the LoGRI Associates Program - The Local Government Revenue Initiative The Local Government Revenue Initiative (LoGRI) is proud to announce the launch of the LoGRI Associates Program (LAP) and to welcome its inaugural cohort. The LAP is designed to recognize senior profe...

📣 We're thrilled to announce the launch of the LoGRI Associates Program (LAP)!

🎉 Join us in welcoming our first cohort: Enid Slack, Jonathan Weigel, Nara Monkam, & ‪‪@nmeriggi.bsky.social

Learn more about the program here ➡️ logri.org/2025/07/intr...

#LoGRI #PropertyTax #Tax4Dev

📍Last month, Project Officer Adele Somat attended a World Bank workshop on decentralization and local public finance in #Brazzaville, Republic of Congo 🇨🇬

She led a session on #PropertyTaxes for local revenue mobilization, reflecting on Congo's current constraints and potential paths forward.

📸credit: @uclg.bsky.social, @un-habitat.bsky.social, @unep.org

With #ODA set to drop 9–17% this year, last week's #FfD4 in Sevilla was a vital moment to rethink dev financing.

LoGRI's @wilsonprichard.bsky.social & @moyoarewa.bsky.social attended, highlighting #PropertyTaxes as a key tool in #DRM and sustainable growth.

#LoGRI #Tax4Dev #FinancingOurFuture

Evidence from Sierra Leone shows that digital participatory budgeting can increase government legitimacy in weak states but only increases tax compliance for supporters of the incumbent government.

Read today's article to learn more:

Can participatory budgeting build government legitimacy and increase tax revenues in weak states? Evidence from Sierra Leone shows that digital participatory budgeting can increase government legitimacy in weak states but only increases tax compliance for supporters of the incumbent government.

Governments in low-income countries often struggle to raise enough taxes to fund development.

In this @voxdev.bsky.social article @nmeriggi.bsky.social & co-authors explore if getting citizens involved in budget decisions can help in Sierra Leone.

📢New Working Paper from LoGRI & @oxfordcsae.bsky.social: "Participation, Legitimacy and Fiscal Capacity in Weak States: Evidence from Participatory Budgeting"

✍️Kevin Grieco, Abou Bakarr Kamara, @nmeriggi.bsky.social @julianpolsci.bsky.social ‪& @wilsonprichard.bsky.social

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⭐NEW CSAE & @logritax.bsky.social Working Paper 'Participation, legitimacy & fiscal capacity in weak states: evidence from participatory budgeting'.
✒️Kevin Grieco, Abou Bakarr Kamara, @nmeriggi.bsky.social
‪@julianpolsci.bsky.social &‬ @wilsonprichard.bsky.social
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Building Public Support for Property Tax Reform in Senegal through Sensitization and Communication Campaigns - ICTD Reform experiences in Senegal illustrate how effective communication strategies about the importance of property taxes can increase public awareness and support for reforms.

NEW BLOG: @logritax.bsky.social researchers unpack reform experiences in #Senegal, which show how effective communications strategies on the importance of property taxes can raise public awareness and support for reforms.

Read it here ➡️ ow.ly/itMN50VRCKi

#TaxTwitter #TaxReform #TaxPolicy

Day 2 of the @africancities.bsky.social Urban Property Tax Workshop in #Accra built on the momentum of the day before, underscoring the importance of the technical and political aspects of reform!

Learn more about #LoGRI's contributions to these critical conversations ➡️ logri.org/event/africa...

📢This week, we're in #Accra, Ghana for the Urban Property Tax Workshop hosted by @acc-uct.bsky.social and People's Dialogue.

Day 1 featured engaging presentations from the #LoGRI team on reform frameworks, #PropertyTax administration, and interinstitutional collaboration.

Looking forward to day 2!

Building Local Government Capacity for Property Tax Reform in Kananga, DRC - The Local Government Revenue Initiative Since June 2023, LoGRI — in close collaboration with UC Berkeley — has been supporting the provincial government of Kasaï Central, DRC, in a comprehensive reform of their property tax system in their ...

Since 2023, LoGRI and @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social have been working with local authorities in #Kananga, DRC to introduce a #CAMA model and the digital tax system #Moptax

📰Learn more about how this project is shifting from external support to full local ownership here 👉 logri.org/2025/04/buil...

Inter-Institutional Collaboration in Property Tax Administration in Senegal: Challenges and Perspectives - The Local Government Revenue Initiative

📺 Earlier this month, Policy Lead Camille Barras held a presentation on the relationship between interinstitutional #collaboration and #PropertyTax performance at a GIZ Morocco hosted webinar.

📖 Check out her insights in our recently published policy brief here 👉 logri.org/publication/...

📺 Au début du mois, responsable politique Camille Barras a fait une présentation sur la relation entre la collaboration interinstitutionnelle et l'impôt foncier lors d'un webinaire organisé par la GIZ Maroc.

📖 Découvrez son point de vue dans notre bulletin politique ici 👉 logri.org/publication/...

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Driving Impact: Professor Wilson Prichard Provides Advisory Support to African Mayoral Leadership Initiative - The Local Government Revenue Initiative At the end of January, Professor Wilson Prichard, Chair of LoGRI, travelled to Cape Town, South Africa and Nairobi, Kenya to support a group of African mayors in raising more revenues to support expan...

Check out our latest news story about @wilsonprichard.bsky.social's on-going collaboration with #AMALI 🌍 🤝

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Local Government Revenue Initiative Secures €3 million in New Funding to Expand Operations - The Local Government Revenue Initiative Launched in 2021, the Local Government Revenue Initiative (LoGRI) is a research center based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy that supports subnational governments in lower-income ...

📣 We are thrilled to announce that we've secured a three-year grant of €3 million from the French Treasury to support the expansion of our operations!

🌱 Visit our website to learn more about how this funding will help us scale and strengthen our work ⬇️
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📍Cette semaine, notre équipe est au #Benin 🇧🇯 pour partager les résultats de notre évaluation diagnostique du système d'impôt foncier.

Cette restitution ouvre la voie à des échanges constructifs pour avancer la reforme plus inclusive & efficace.

🚀Hâte de voire la suite !

📍This week, members of our team are in #Benin 🇧🇯 to present the findings of our diagnostic assessment of the #PropertyTax system.

The presentation marks the beginning of a broader dialogue on how to build more inclusive & effective tax systems.

🚀Excited to see what's next!

#ICYMI: LoGRI’s latest newsletter came out last week!

📩 In it, we highlight exciting project updates, our latest research and analysis on property tax, and more!

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📬 👀 Keep an eye on your inboxes, LoGRI’s quarterly newsletter is coming out next week!

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📍LoGRI's Titilola Akindeinde and Adèle Somat attended a close-door roundtable discussion on day 2 of the eGov Foundation Dialogues in #Nairobi!

This event gathered stakeholders to discuss the importance of #OSR and open-source digital solutions for local govts 🤝🌍

🚀 Excited to see what's next!

📍Today, Adèle Somat participated on a panel discussion at the eGov Foundation Dialogues in #Nairobi, Kenya!

She discussed digitalization’s potential to strengthen #OSR, drawing on lessons learned from LoGRI’s experience deploying an IT system in Sierra Leone 💻 🙌

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🇹🇬 This week, members of the LoGRI team hosted a workshop with l’Office Togolais des Recettes (OTR) to share results from last summer’s pilot on property ID & valuation for property tax purposes.

Big thanks to l'OTR et à CROP for their support. Excited for what’s next! 🚀