Comprehensive policy advocacy across critical fiscal governance domains
YTJN engages across multiple critical domains of fiscal governance, advocating for policies that advance economic justice, transparency, and youth inclusion.
Advancing equitable, sustainable, and youth-responsive financing models that strengthen domestic resource mobilization and support inclusive development outcomes.
Advocating for a fair, inclusive, and democratic global tax system under the UN that centers the interests of developing countries and meaningful youth participation.
Promoting fair, efficient, and progressive tax systems that reduce inequality, protect vulnerable groups, and sustainably finance public services.
Combating tax evasion, profit shifting, and other illicit financial practices that drain public resources from African economies.
Championing transparency in corporate ownership to curb corruption, tax abuse, and illicit financial flows.
Advocating for systemic reforms to global financial institutions, debt mechanisms, and fiscal rules to enable development-oriented and people-centered financing.
Supporting fair debt restructuring, debt cancellation, and responsible lending and borrowing to protect public spending and intergenerational equity.
Promoting just climate finance mechanisms and accountable management of natural resources to ensure sustainability, equity, and fair benefit-sharing.
Engaging youth in shaping tax, trade, and fiscal policies linked to AfCFTA to support inclusive growth, regional integration, and decent work.
Advancing efforts to recover stolen public assets and promote reparative justice for historical and ongoing economic injustices affecting the Global South.
Strengthening open budgets, fiscal transparency, and citizen oversight to improve accountability and democratic governance.
Promoting intersectional and gender-responsive fiscal policies that address structural inequalities affecting youth and marginalized communities.
Advancing meaningful youth inclusion in tax, budgetary, trade, and macroeconomic decision-making at national, regional, and global levels.
Defending civic freedoms and human rights as foundational to effective tax justice and economic governance advocacy.
Empowering young people with knowledge, skills, and platforms to engage in tax justice, public finance, and economic policy advocacy.
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