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Tax Ed Alliance Reflection, Learning and Planning Meeting
2025-11-04 - 2025-11-07 | Nairobi, Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
The Tax Ed Alliance came together for a powerful in-person meeting this month—a time to reflect, learn, and plan.
Since this phase of our work began, the national, regional and global context for education financing has shifted dramatically. We took a strategic pause to look back at our achievements, honestly assess ongoing challenges, and chart our path forward. 📈 We also dedicated time to learn about tax and gender equality and how to connect this to our work on education financing.
The energy and commitment in the room were palpable as we discussed how to navigate these dynamic times and seize new opportunities. A huge thank you to every member and partner for the continued collaboration and insights!
We’re excited to continue this collective work to see an increase in sustainable, progressive & gender-responsive financing for quality, inclusive, public education systems.

#TaxPaysForEducation #RightToEducation #SDG4 #TaxJustice

International Day of Education
2026-01-21 | Online
There is no education justice without tax justice.
This International Day of Education, we’re zooming in on education financing. This isn’t only about how much governments allocate to education. It’s about whether funds reach classrooms on time, are spent as intended, and help close long-standing inequalities. It’s about public participation in budget cycles and accountability.
But national budgets aren’t the whole story. We also have to ask how much revenue governments are able to raise in the first place. A flawed international tax architecture is a major part of the problem. Even when countries want to invest more, unfair international tax rules limit how much countries like Zambia, Senegal, and Nepal can raise—because the system is rigged in favour of the rich.
The Tax Ed Alliance systematically exposes this pattern and its devastating effects on the right to education. The latest publication series, Financing the Future: Delivering Quality Education as Envisioned in Sustainable Development Goal 4 gives a snapshot of the state of education financing in Ghana, Nepal, Senegal, Uganda and Zambia, and how reforms like the UN Tax Convention and a potential UN Debt Convention could unlock sustained investment in public education.
With the 2030 SDG deadline approaching fast, investing in quality, inclusive, gender-responsive public education isn’t optional—it’s essential.
📌 Follow the Tax Ed Alliance for updates and resources on education financing and tax justice.

Fourth Negotiation Session for the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation
2026-02-02 - 2026-02-13 | New York, NY, United States
The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UN Tax Convention) will hold the Fourth Negotiation Session from 2-3 and 5-13 February 2026 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
For more information, including key documents and access to the session live or via archived video on UN Web TV, follow this link: https://financing.desa.un.org/inc/fourthsession

Global Days of Action on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights
2026-03-02 - 2026-03-08 | International
The 10th edition of GDOA will be launched on 2nd March and will take place from the 2nd to 8th March 2026.
The Global Days of Action on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights (GDOA) 2026 will mobilise feminist movements, tax justice advocates, care workers’ organisations, trade unions, and civil society globally under the call:
“Tax Justice for the Human Right to Care”

Global Action Week for Education (GAWE) 2026: Education Financing
2026-04-20 - 2026-04-25 | International
With the looming failure to reach SDG 4 targets, the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) must advocate strongly for sustained and increased education financing. The Global Action Week for Education 2026 (GAWE 2026) is a critical opportunity for education movements worldwide to unite and lobby governments across the world to take bold steps to sustainably finance inclusive and quality public education for all children, youth and adults.
The GAWE 2026 campaign on education financing will build on the 2023 Decolonising Education Financing Campaign and pursue its advocacy during FfD4 to change the global financial architecture to dismantle systemic inequalities in financing, promote tax justice, challenge austerity and strengthen public financing of education. It will challenge false solutions to education financing such as the debt to equity swaps and innovative financing that promotes education as an investment portfolio rather than a human right and public good for all.
The campaign will also hold donor countries to account in their commitment to ODA for education, not as charity but as a matter of global justice. GCE will support and maximise political opportunities alongside the replenishment financing campaigns of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and the Education Cannot Wait (ECW) that are both happening in 2026.

Launch of the Nairobi Charter on Transformative Education Financing
2026-04-24 | Nairobi, Kenya
Join us as we #HoldTheFlameHigh for justice, for peace, for education. Together, we launch the Nairobi Charter for Transformative Education Financing.
⏰ 10:30 EAT | Friday 24th April 2026
🗣️ English
🔗 Register now/Follow the event live: HERE
#TaxPaysForEducation
#GAWE2026

Building Feminist Movements on Tax Justice
2026-07-08 | Cali, Colombia
Building Feminist Movements on Tax Justice for a Gender-Transformative, Climate-Just Economy and a UN Tax Convention
Strategy Workshop at the 34th Annual IAFFE Conference
8 July 2026, 10AM-5PM
Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia
Registration link: https://forms.gle/F8FapZTkhHUw48sm7
Details: This event will bring together advocates, activists, and academics to explore and identify sharp intersectional analysis across tax justice and gender equality. Approximately 80 participants will collectively strategize how best to use the opportunity of the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation, as well as the new Tax and Gender Subcommittee under the UN Tax Committee, to advance fairer tax systems and bolster the economic and social rights of women and gender-diverse people, in a context of both conflict and climate catastrophe.
Organized by: ActionAid International, Akina Mama wa Afrika, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT), MENAFem Movement for Economic Development and Ecological Justice, Tax Justice Network, the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), Tax and Education Alliance, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, and the Tax and Gender Working Group convened by the Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ), in partnership with IAFFE and hosted by Observatorio para la Equidad de las Mujeres, Universidad ICESI.

Fifth Negotiation Session for the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation
2026-08-03 - 2026-08-14 | New York, NY, United States
The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UN Tax Convention) will hold the Fifth Negotiation Session from 3 – 14 August 2026 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
For updates and more information, including key documents and access to the session live or via archived video on UN Web TV, follow this link: https://financing.desa.un.org/unfcitc

Sixth Negotiation Session for the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation
2026-11-30 - 2026-12-11 | Nairobi, Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UN Tax Convention) will hold the Sixth Negotiation Session from 30 November – 11 December 2026 at the United Nations Headquarters in Nairobi.
For updates and more information, including key documents and access to the session live or via archived video on UN Web TV, follow this link: https://financing.desa.un.org/unfcitc
