OCO Head of Secretariat, Richard Brennan meeting with FRCS Interim Chief Executive Officer, Jonetani Vuto in Suva, Fiji

Suva, Fiji, February 26, 2021– OCO Head of Secretariat, Mr. Richard Brennan paid a courtesy call to Fiji Revenue and Customs Services Interim Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Jonetani Vuto on Tuesday, February 23.

Mr. Brennan recently returned to Fiji having been in Australia since both countries went into lockdown last year.

The two heads discussed issues pertinent to Customs operations in the region.

“It was nice to meet in person after a year of meeting each other on the virtual space,” Mr. Brennan said.

Mr. Vuto is a veteran Customs Officer with more than three decades of experience and was appointed Interim CEO last month.

Mr. Brennan was accompanied by OCO Operations Manager, Mrs. Irma Daphney Stone.

 

For more information or for any queries, please contact the Secretariat or email: mediaoco@ocosec.org 

 

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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