Workshop to boost capacity on Customs and Trade Statistics

by | Jan 12, 2017 | Latest Postings

The OCO facilitated a workshop from 11-15 April 2016 in Suva Fiji aimed at strengthening that capacity for customs administration in customs data management, custom research and national trade statistics.

The Workshop was attended by 15 members of the OCO and brought together key stakeholders including representation of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, United National Conference on Trade & Development, World Bank, Pacific Financial Assistance Centre (PFTAC), Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Melanesian Spearhead Group, Office of the Chief Trade Advisor and New Zealand Statistics.

The participants developed Action Plans to strengthen Customs capacity for data management and trade statistics and also endorsed the proposal to establish regional mechanism for the Harmonised System and the development of a Pacific Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System.

Share This

Priority 1

Customs Leadership

Overall Objective: Enhance the Leadership capability to enable Customs’ modernisation reforms

Develop and strengthen Members’ leadership capabilities at executive management and supervisory levels

* Strengthen the implementation of the current OCO Professional Standards Framework (OPSF).
* Facilitate executive and management programmes with a continued focus on women in leadership
* Develop mentoring and internship programmes and modules
* Develop front line supervision training
* Develop a train the trainer program
* Provide ethics and governance training

Strengthen organisational development for the future

* Conduct annual training needs analysis for individual Members
* Facilitate and promote the use of relevant WCO and OCO E-learning modules
* Develop a Gender Equality Plan for Customs
* Policy and Legislative skill development
* Develop a pathway to be a recognised accredited Customs training provider
* Secretariat and Member engagement at regional and international forums.
* Build and maintain a Customs Expert database

Strengthen succession planning

  • * Development of executive and leadership courses for Member administrations
  • * Conduct a regional workshop on Corporate Governance and Succession Planning for Member administrations