OCO NEWSLETTER, ISSUE 5 – JAN-MAR 2021

by | Apr 22, 2021 | Newsletter

Greetings from the OCO Secretariat!

We are pleased to present the OCO E-Newsletter for the period January – March 2021.

In this edition we bring you up to speed on:

  • Activities for the period January – March 2021.
  • News from OCO Members and,
  • Activities currently lined up for the months of April, May and June 2021

We welcome any contribution from our Member Administrations and should you wish to include an in-country activity in the next issue, please do not hesitate to contact the Secretariat at info@ocosec.org or mediaOCO@ocosec.org

OCO Newsletter Jan-Mar 2021

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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