The 61st English-speaking Fellowship Programme was launched in Brussels on Monday 23 September 2013.
This Programme forms part of the work to develop the management capacities of Member administrations in support of Phase II of the Columbus Programme. It is designed to provide extremely promising young managers from Member administrations with training in supervisory and management techniques, so as to help them carry out reform and modernization within their respective administrations in a dynamic and sustainable manner.
This latest Programme brings together 16 participants who were welcomed by Mr. Kieck, Director, Capacity Building directorate, World Customs Organization. This introduction serves as a prelude to a series of conferences given by WCO experts, as well as to the Leadership and Management Development Course, facilitated by two experts from South Africa and the WCO Secretariat. The fellows also benefited from a round-table discussion with the Deputy Secretary General of the WCO, Mr. Mujica.
The participants will remain at WCO Headquarters until 18 October 2013 in order to prepare an in-depth study on a subject of their choice, under the supervision of a Secretariat tutor, and to make recommendations to their respective administrations for possible subsequent implementation. Lastly the participants will spend a fortnight in one of the Programme’s partner Administrations (Japan, Republic of Korea or People’s Republic of China) to round off their study trip.
The English-speaking Fellowship Programme is funded by the Customs Administrations of Japan, P.R. China and the Korea Development Fund.
List of countries participating in the 61st Fellowship Programme: South Africa, Ukraine, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, Uganda, Vanuatu, Bahamas, Cambodia, Ghana, Liberia, Mongolia, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, South Sudan and Malawi. This is the first time that South Sudan, which joined the WCO in July 2012, participates in the Fellowship Programme.