Financial Transparency Coalition

African civil society organisations and a coalition of leading international development organisations have called for global policymakers to adopt measures to counter the hundreds of billions of dollars siphoned out of the continent through money laundering and industrial scale corporate tax avoidance.

We've just completed our pre-conference seminar here at the 2013 FTC Conference in Dar es Salaam. Fifty reporters, civil society members, and experts from across the world gathered to prepare for the conference. Tomorrow, we're expecting that number to quadrupedal for the conference's main event on October 1st and second. For the first time, we're scaling up opportunities to participate in the conference. I'll be live-tweeting the event as our panoply of experts discuss financial transparency and illicit financial flows. On each side of the main stage, we will be displaying all Tweets using the hashtag #FTCDar2013. You can...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, September 30, 2013 - The Financial Transparency Coalition (FTC) and Tanzania’s Policy Forum, will host the highly anticipated conference Towards Transparency: Making the Global Financial System Work for Development at the White Sands Hotel on October 1 and 2, 2013. Topics to be discussed include the detrimental effects of illicit financial flows on the extractive industries (oil, gas, timber and mining), conflict and instability, illicit wildlife and arms trade. An expected two hundred guests from over 30 countries will look at how to make the global economy work for rich and poor by increasing financial...

Greetings from Dar es Salaam! We’re still half a day away from the beginning the 2013 FTC Conference main program, and we’ve already seen a number of exciting developments. One big development: Semkae Kilonzo, Coordinator for Policy Forum, our partners for the conference in Dar, had a great blog post published at The Guardian this