Consultancy Service to Design Gender Framework for Health Tax Policy and Advocacy in Africa

1. Background 

Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) is a pan-African policy advocacy network established in 2007, working in 26 African countries with 53 member organisations. TJNA advances tax justice to support equitable, inclusive, and sustainable development by challenging unjust tax policies that exacerbate inequality and facilitate illicit financial flows. 

The network’s work is implemented across four core thematic arenas: 

Tax and International Financial Architecture 
Tax and Investments 
Tax and Natural Resources 
Tax and Equity

Within the Tax and Equity workstream, TJNA coordinates the Tobacco Tax Advocacy in Africa (TTAA) project, which is implemented in the DRC, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Namibia and Zambia, and works with the Regional Economic Communities (East Africa Community (EAC), Southern African Development Community (SADC) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) at sub-regional levels. The project’s overall goal is to reduce the affordability of tobacco products and increase domestic revenues for health financing. 

The TTAA project is currently in its third phase, with one of the central focuses being on reducing gender bias in the design and implementation of tobacco tax policy as a primary outcome. The project seeks to strengthen gender-responsive advocacy to protect vulnerable populations, particularly women and youth, from tobacco-related harms driven by tobacco industry interference and inequitable tax policy structures. 

2. OBJECTIVE  

The overall objective of this consultancy is to develop a comprehensive Conceptual Framework for Taxation and Gender that will guide health tax advocacy, policy development, and implementation with a strong emphasis on women, girls, and gender-diverse groups across the TTAA countries and Africa’s regional economic communities. The scope of the consultancy will be limited to health harmful products, specifically tobacco and nicotine products, alcohol, and sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs), ensuring that gender considerations are systematically integrated into tax policy design and advocacy related to these products.

To achieve this, TJNA seeks to engage a consultant to develop a robust country-specific Gender Framework for Health Tax Advocacy in Africa to guide programming, evidence generation, stakeholder engagement, and policy influence across eight African countries.