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Cape Town, WC, ZA

Africa

Building better revenue collection administrations across Africa

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

I was responsible for the technical leadership and management of the Tax, Audit and Transparency (TAUT) project. I provided strategic direction to directly engage with the Government of Ethiopia and maintain the focus on delivering programme outcomes. I oversaw expatriate and local staff and other experts. The TAUT programme sought to improve the tax.

As CG of the OBR I have the management of Burundi's tax administration which includes domestic taxes and customs, excises and non-fiscal revenues. My position is financed by TradeMark East Africa as part of its programme of support to OBR and to the greater integration of Burundi into the East African Community.

• My job was to work closely with the Commissioner General, the RRA senior management team and the DFID Governance Adviser to manage the project and ensure that the project maintains a recognised and agreed direction. My.
• Work closely with the RRA’s Project Management Office (PMO) to ensure the effective implementation of RRA’s modernisation strategy;
• Mentor each and every member of the PMO to the fullest extent possible to ensure they are capable of carrying out their duties;
• Assist the PMO to consolidate all the existing and planned reform initiatives into a single modernisation plan across tax and customs administrations, including the collection and audit of CSR contributions;
• Train PMO staff in the use of modern project management techniques;I started this job on a peripatetic basis from August 2002 to December 2002 and took a full-time position in January 2003. I left this position on 15th.

I was employed as a computerisation, tax administration and training adviser under the Strengthening Economic and Financial Management Project. This was a UNDP/DFID/IMF project designed to strengthen economic and financial management in 5 partner agencies and two pension funds in Yemen. The 5 agencies were the Tax and Customs Authorities, the Ministry of.

I managed the Revenue Assistance Project for DFID/ODA, which had a 1995 value of £1.6m and prior to that the Assistance to Revenue Collection Departments Project also for DFID. Both projects provided technical assistance to Lesotho in the form of income tax, sales tax, audit and computerisation advisers as well as various short-term advisers for customs.