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Learn how Cameroon Customs implemented a Risk Management System to improve revenue, governance, and trade efficiency. Explore the benefits, challenges, and lessons learned from this reform project.
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Implementation of a Risk Management System by Cameroon Customs Prepared by: Gasper KONNEH NEBA Inspector of Customs 10 July 2012
Outline • Background • Implementation issues • Benefits • Some challenges • Some lessons learned
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++.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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