Dr Colette Nyirakamana

Research Lead, LoGRI

Local Government Revenue Initiative

Colette Nyirakamana is Research Lead for the Local Government Revenue Initiative, and Senior Research Associate at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on building the fiscal autonomy of subnational governments across sub-Saharan Africa.

Publications

Working Paper

Building Comprehensive Property Tax Systems in Lower-Income Countries: ‘Cadaster-First’ vs ‘Property Tax First’ Approaches

September 2025
Wilson Prichard, Camille Barras & Colette Nyirakamana
Research in Brief

Land and Property Taxation to Finance Urban Development in Somaliland: Challenges and Prospects for Reform

January 2025
Colette Nyirakamana, Vanessa van den Boogaard, Warsame Ahmed & Deanndre Chen
African Tax Administration Paper

Land and Property Taxation to Finance Urban Development in Somaliland: Challenges and Prospects for Reform

August 2024
Colette Nyirakamana, Vanessa van den Boogaard & Warsame Ahmed
Policy Brief

Five Tenets for Consideration When Undertaking Property Tax Reform in Africa

December 2021
Astrid R.N. Haas, Justine Knebelmann & Colette Nyirakamana
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Blogs

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May 2025|
Blog

Building public support for property tax reform in senegal through sensitization and communication campaigns

by Marie Reine Mukazayire, Colette Nyirakamana & Camille Barras

The authors would like to thank the officials of the DGID and the Treasury of Senegal,…

News and events

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Event
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3 December 2024
Building More Effective and Equitable Tax Systems: Priorities and Strategies for FfD4

The ICTD will be hosting a side event at the Second Preparatory Committee Session of the Financing for Development Conference….
News
Research on Tax and Development course cohort
September 2024
ICTD wraps in Accra this year’s course on Research on Tax and Development

Twenty-two tax and finance professionals mostly from countries across Africa successfully completed ICTD’s last module for…
Event
An art card for the event "Beyond the money: How tax policies are shaping politics and society in Africa". It has a dark blue background and headshots of each of the five speakers.
12 September 2024
Panel: Beyond the money: How tax policies are shaping politics and society in Africa

This interactive panel will discuss the relationship between taxes and trust in the state, elections and public mobilisation, informality, and gendered social relations….

Research Projects

Current Project

The political, institutional and bargaining dynamics of property tax reform in Dakar, Thiès and Saint-Louis, Senegal

Colette Nyirakamana, Camille Barras & Marie Reine Mukazayire
Current Project

Exploring the potential of property tax reform in Malawi

Colette Nyirakamana, Graeme Stewart-Wilson & Alexander Chirambo
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