Consultancy Opportunity – Strategy Review Process
December 19th, 2025
FTC is happy to announce that we’re seeking a short-term consultancy for our upcoming strategy review process. Please find attached the Terms of Reference, and respond by the 15 January to Paola Ruiz, at paolaruiz@financialtransparency.org
Across the world, many governments are shifting to promoting austerity policies, reducing financing for public services, and lowering taxes on investors that threaten the financing of public services that are critical to reducing inequality, including gender inequalities through the provision of care and social protection. Similarly, the financial transparency related reforms to tackle illicit financial flows that seemed inevitable some years ago are facing resistance from interest groups that defend secrecy, including large companies, especially in the digital economy, rather than public access to ownership data on companies and assets more widely that enables taxing these assets, and detecting illicit activities.
FTC has responded to this context by continuing to evidence and advocate progressive tax systems that finance care systems and social protection and opposing austerity policies with fiscal reforms and transparency. We have tackled Illicit Financial Flows related to fisheries and forestry sectors in recent years by exposing the secretive beneficial ownership structures linked to fishing vessels, deforested land, and companies behind them that allow for the destruction of ecosystems, and overexploitation of natural resources . We have also developed work defining what a Rights Based Economy looks like, together with many activists, academia and experts.
This has in turn supported our focus on the ABC of financial transparency as an overarching policy tool that brings together the key reforms linked to ending the era of financial secrecy that has made tax systems more regressive and less effective at mobilising revenue, while allowing for illicit actors to continue exploiting natural resources with impunity.
We are now building our strategy for the years 2026-2028, and would like to gain greater inputs through this consultancy from both internal and external stakeholders.