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The Oceania Customs Organisation is an inter-governmental organisation in the Pacific Region dedicated to helping its 24 member administrations align with international customs standards and best practices. This alignment leads to greater economic prosperity and...

OCO NEWSLETTER, ISSUE 23 – JUL to SEP 2025

Greetings from the OCO Secretariat! We are pleased to present the OCO E-Newsletter for the period July – September 2025. In this edition we bring you up to speed on: Member News Activity Highlights OCO News Upcoming Trainings Gallery We welcome any contribution...

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