Claire Kumar Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

Responsible for coordinating the research portfolio of ODI Europe. Contributing especially to research, convening and public affairs work in relation to migration looking at: legal pathways for labour immigration, public attitudes and narratives on migration and the EU's migration and asylum policy.

London, England, United Kingdom

This short-term consultancy involved research into particular aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic and impacts on developing countries including: the exacerbation of inequalities caused by the pandemic, the need to strengthen public health and social protection systems and appropriate public finance responses to the crisis.

Dublin City, County Dublin, Ireland

This short-term consultancy involved conducting an advocacy review to assess the ways of working, effectiveness and lessons learned of the Policy and Advocacy Team, as well as to document recent legislative successes achieved as a result of Trócaire’s campaigning in Ireland. Work involved internal literature review, stakeholder interviews (internal and.

Consultancy responsibilities included: quality assurance of a child protection costing and fiscal space study conducted by OPM in Jordan; the development of three health budget briefings looking at trends in public sector investment in health in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar and a regional public health expenditure report. Work involved desk-based.

This short-term consultancy involved the development of a proposal for an Arab Fiscal Policy and Taxation Administration Forum. It looked at why it might be needed, the range of topics it could address, the connection with the global debates around international tax rules and tax cooperation, and the best format for such a forum through a comparative.

This consultancy involved an evaluation of the work of ICRICT, conducted on behalf of their main funder, FES. This high level commission advocates around the reform of international taxation rules in relation to multinational companies. The evaluation involved a large stakeholder consultation, interviewing ICRICT’s secretariat, steering group members.

This consultancy involved the evaluation of one of the pillars of Oxfam’s global strategic plan during the period 2013-2018. It focused on Financing for Development and involved a review of a large portfolio of Oxfam’s work in this area (including tax and budget work, public service provision and its evolving work on inequality). Main activities included a.

This consultancy involved the development of a national plan for the expansion of pre-primary education in Turkmenistan. Work included extensive costing of options to scale up Turkmenistan’s investment in pre-primary level education, as well as development of a simplified cost-benefit analysis of the proposed investment scenarios. Ensuring an equitable.

This long-term consultancy involved working with Oxfam Intermon (Spain) and the London School of Economics in developing a new inequality framework and toolkit. The inequality framework envisaged is a multi-dimensional tool to evaluate inequalities across all areas of wellbeing (from survival, health and education, through income, wealth and all aspects of.

This consultancy involved working with GATJ to identify key options for their future strategy, including revising their vision, missions, goals, objectives, organisational theory of change and the future direction of campaigns and policy work. As well as developing a new strategic plan, options for strengthening the secretariat, organisational structure.

This short-term consultancy involves working with T/AI and their funder members in relation to their tax-related portfolios. Funder members are: Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Omidyar Network and Hewlett Foundation. All have begun investing significant amounts to support tax, fiscal transparency and fiscal governance initiatives. This work.

Rwanda

This consultancy involved working with a team from Adam Smith International to design a new programme for DFID in relation to early childhood development in Rwanda. This work was mainly concerned with the 0-3 age group (though some complementary actions for the 4-6 age group were considered) and had a large focus on the parenting education aspect. My role.

Rwanda

This consultancy involved the development of a ‘Public Finance for Children’ baseline analysis for UNICEF Rwanda. It included the production of a large two-part study accompanied by a complete budget data set and data analysis tools for future expenditure and progress monitoring for social sectors in Rwanda. The study looked at Rwanda’s national budget.

Rwanda

This consultancy started by looking at the ‘fiscal space for investment in children’ in Rwanda with various contract extensions allowing for follow up research and support to Save the Children’s budget advocacy. Work included an overview of revenue mobilisation trends – with a particular focus on tax revenue collection trends, tax equity and the.

Rwanda

This consultancy involved the development of a national plan for expansion of pre-primary education in Rwanda in collaboration with Rwanda’s Ministry of Education. Work included a review of expenditure at the pre-primary level, qualitative research to assess the costs of pre-primary education which are currently borne by families in Rwanda, and extensive.

This consultancy involved the creation of a guide for Oxfam staff related to inequality. It was produced for Oxfam’s programme staff working in developing countries to help them re-orient their programming and advocacy work to more effectively tackle inequality as a central issue of concern. The guide produced covers all forms of inequalities including.

This short term consultancy involved a scoping study on tax and development (including looking at illicit financial flows), assessing the direction of tax and development policy and programme work, the key actors operating in this field and identifying the most strategic opportunities for donors interested in funding work in this area. The methodology.

Rwanda

Short term consultancy with UNICEF, this post was placed within the Ministry for Gender and Family Promotion in Rwanda. It entailed development of the National Family Policy addressing issues such as parenting, gender equality within the family, domestic violence and child abuse and social protection issuse. Work involved data collection and analysis, a.

London, United Kingdom

This role entailed leading the development of economic policy and advocacy work for the Latin America and Caribbean division in Christian Aid, researching and developing key economic policy positions and supporting Christian Aid and partner organisations’ advocacy and policy efforts. My role also included the provision of technical support to country.

Development Management, Development Economics

Law And French, Law, French