Introducing an Integrated Risk Management Approach for Customs Administrations

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Session No.: SA 24.19
Location: New Delhi, India
Date: April 22-26, 2024 (1 week)
Delivery Method: In-person Training
Primary Language: English
Status: Deadline passed
Target audience:
- Senior managers and customs officials involved in risk management who have at least 5 years of experience in customs, as well as a current or potential role to contribute to the organization's strategic and/or operational reform agenda over the next years.

Purpose: Build capacity of customs administrations (CAs) from emerging and developing economies to effectively adopt an integrated risk management approach to help strengthen customs controls while encouraging economic operators' voluntary compliance and improving trade facilitation.
The course will cover:
- the critical strategic components that are the basis for supporting the correct operational functioning in customs;
- how to identify CAs' control gaps by comparing their current state against good practices; and
- how to begin optimizing the use of data.
Additional focus: Discuss why in many cases risk management has failed to achieve the expected results.
Basis of content: Practical experience of IMF customs experts garnered through their experience as customs officials, their work to support customs capacity development, and lessons learned and shared by many CAs.
Learning methods:
- Work sessions to foster broad and active discussion among participants and exchange of experiences to internalize course objectives in the reality of each customs administration.
- Practical case studies to enhance the learning experience.

Help participants understand what an integrated risk management (IRM) approach entails and the importance of its adoption as part of the customs administration governance.
Specific objectives:
- Identify the key components that must be developed to adopt an effective IRM.
- Provide guidance on how to develop a compliance improvement plan based on IRM.
- Explain how to identify the main vulnerabilities within the core customs processes that may be leading to the materialization of compliance risks.
- Explain how the use of data can be optimized to improve selectivity criteria and segment the total population of importers in a practical way.
- Strengthen participants' risks management skills and inspire them to develop or improve their own compliance improvement plans based on an IRM.