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WTO Trade Facilitation Enters into Force

WTO Trade Facilitation Enters into Force

Feb 27, 2017

The World Trade Organisation's (WTO) Director-General announced on Wednesday, 22 February, 2017 that the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) has...

International Customs Day 2017

International Customs Day 2017

Jan 25, 2017

On this day 26 January the Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO) is joining the rest of the world customs family in celebrating the International...

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