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Reforming Risk Management at Cameroon Customs: Benefits, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

This report outlines the reform of risk management at Cameroon Customs, detailing the motivation, implementation issues, benefits, challenges, and lessons learned. It covers the background of the reform, including the pressure from trade partners and the deployment of the new Customs management system. The report discusses institutional arrangements, legal framework reform, logistical and financial issues, partnerships with stakeholders, and phased implementation. Benefits include revenue increase, governance improvement, and trade facilitation. Challenges involve resistance to change, informal sector coping, funding issues, and expertise availability. Lessons learned include the importance of selective controls, high-level support, dedicated staff, and gradual implementation.

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Reforming Risk Management at Cameroon Customs: Benefits, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

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  1. Implementation of a Risk Management System by Cameroon Customs Prepared by: Gasper KONNEH NEBA Inspector of Customs 10 July 2012

  2. Outline • Background • Implementation issues • Benefits • Some challenges • Some lessons learned

  3. Background: motivation for the reform • As part of a general Customs reform program; • Pressure from the trade and international partners; • Government policy to improve on the business environment in the country; • Time release studies and other studies; • The deployment of a new Customs management system - ASYCUDA++.

  4. Implementation issues • Institutional arrangements: creation of a Risk Management Unit; • Legal framework: reform of Customs procedures; • Logistical, technical and financial issues; • Partnership with other stakeholders: FAL Committee and Customs/Enterprise Forum; • Phased out implementation process: selectivity, performance monitoring, other modules.

  5. Some benefits • Benefits for the government: • Increase in revenue; • Improvement of governance in the Customs environment; • Performance monitoring; • Benefits to the trade: • Reduction of clearance time and costs; • The rationalization of Customs controls; • Predictability in the nature and level of controls; • The existence of objective indicators to assess the compliance level of traders.

  6. Some challenges • Resistance to change and lack of cooperation from other agencies and stakeholders; • Coping with the informal sector; • Lack of adequate funding; • Availability of Customs and computing expertise.

  7. Some lessons learned • 100% controls are not necessarily more efficient than selective controls; • The need for high level support for the project; • The need for dedicated staff and appropriation of the project by the staff; • Support from partners (traders, other stakeholders, and international institutions (World Bank, WCO, etc.) • Gradual implementation: the different modules were rolled out gradually and continue to be developed.

  8. Thank you for your kind attention! http://douanescustoms-cm.net

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