OCO APPOINTS NEW ENFORCEMENT ADVISOR

OCO APPOINTS NEW ENFORCEMENT ADVISOR

Suva, Fiji, August 31, 2020- Customs officers are often seen as gatekeepers and not as important economic contributors even though they help in facilitating trade in an economy, newly appointed OCO Enforcement Advisor, Mohammed Ajaz says. “The public fails to...
OCO Newsletter, Issue 2- Jan-July 2020

OCO Newsletter, Issue 2- Jan-July 2020

Greetings from the OCO Secretariat! We are pleased to present the OCO E-Newsletter for the period Jan-July 2020 In this edition we bring you up to speed on: • Activities for the period January – July 2020 • News from OCO Members and, • Activities currently lined up...

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