{"id":11444,"date":"2024-08-19T15:27:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douanes.sn\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/sub-regional-integration-and-customs-cooperation-20-new-guinea-bissau-inspectors-trained-in-dakar-receive-their-diploma\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T09:45:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T09:45:16","slug":"sub-regional-integration-and-customs-cooperation-20-new-guinea-bissau-inspectors-trained-in-dakar-receive-their-diploma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douanes.sn\/en\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/sub-regional-integration-and-customs-cooperation-20-new-guinea-bissau-inspectors-trained-in-dakar-receive-their-diploma\/","title":{"rendered":"SUB-REGIONAL INTEGRATION AND CUSTOMS COOPERATION: 20 new Guinea-Bissau inspectors trained in Dakar receive their diploma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

40 Customs middle management staff, comprising 4 non-commissioned officer cadets and 36 inspector cadets, received their diplomas on Thursday, October 28, 2021 at a ceremony held at DGD headquarters.\nAmong them were 20 Guinea-Bissau elements.\nThe ceremony was co-chaired by the Director General of Customs, Abdourahmane DI\u00c8YE, and the Ambassador of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau in Dakar, His Excellency Armando Albino ARAF\u00c3. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

20 student customs inspectors of Bissau-Guinean nationality, trained by the Senegalese Customs School, have just swelled the ranks of their country’s economic soldiers.\nTheir integration into the 39th Promotion is part of the fruitful cooperation between the customs administrations of the two countries.\nThis was materialized by a mutual administrative assistance memorandum of understanding, signed on September 30, 2016 in Bissau.\nTo this end, in 2018, Senegalese Customs welcomed 10 Bissau-Guinean student inspectors trained as part of the 38th promotion.\nIn 2019, 15 Bissau-Guinean customs officials were incubated in customs units in Dakar, and received intermittent reinforcement of their theoretical foundations at the \u00c9cole des Douanes.\nAs a further sign of its commitment to Bissau-Guinean Customs, the Senegalese Customs Administration dispatched a team of trainers to Bissau from September 14 to October 2, 2020, for a capacity-building mission for 90 Bissau-Guinean Customs agents.\nIn 2021, two Senegalese Customs Inspectors carried out a six-month technical and operational support mission to Customs Offices in the main border regions of Bafata and Gabou in the north, and Sao Domingo in the south, at the request of senior Bissau-Guinean authorities. <\/p>\n\n

Quality training<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

The training and capacity-building courses organized for Guinea-Bissau customs officers meet standard standards and include both purely customs modules (litigation, surveillance, customs legislation and tariff technology) and several other subjects ranging from customs procedures and intelligence to public finance, professional English, administrative drafting, ethics and narcotics, among others.<\/p>\n\n

The quality of this training, combined with the masterly on-the-job supervision provided by the trainers sent to Bissau, produced immediate and satisfactory results in terms of both revenue mobilization and securing the international supply chain.<\/p>\n\n

Good neighbors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

For his part, the Ambassador of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau in Dakar, His Excellency Armando Albino ARAF\u00c3, emphasized the vital role of training and information sharing in the conduct of joint projects and in the synergy of action necessary for the development of both countries.\nHe also praised the important contribution of Senegalese Customs “in the development of Guinea-Bissau’s human capital”.\nThis is why, according to the diplomat, “our government appreciates the dynamic and sincere cooperation between our two countries, and hopes to perpetuate it”. <\/p>\n\n

Through Senegalese Customs, His Excellency Ambassador Armando Albino ARAF\u00c3 thanked the Government of Senegal for its contribution to the training of Guinea-Bissau’s economic soldiers.\nHe invited the recipients “to serve their country, UEMOA and ECOWAS with self-sacrifice”.\nIn his speech, the Director General of Senegalese Customs expressed his delight at the excellence of the bilateral cooperation, which in his eyes reflects “the mutual desire of the high authorities of our respective countries to perpetuate the age-old friendship between our two brotherly peoples”. <\/p>\n\n

For Abdourahmane DI\u00c8YE, the training of these 20 inspectors from Guinea-Bissau alongside their Senegalese colleagues is “another milestone in the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding and Mutual Administrative Assistance signed between the two Administrations”.\n“Since the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation and mutual administrative assistance in customs matters, our two administrations have already carried out several major training initiatives together”, adds the Director General, welcoming the results of this “fruitful and instructive partnership”.\nIn the same vein, he paid tribute to the Command of the Customs School and to the supervisors, not without acknowledging the support of the World Bank in the realization of these training projects.\nLastly, he reminded the recipients of the hopes placed in them, and the self-sacrifice that must guide their action, with “a spirit of resilience and adaptation, combined with discipline at all times, will enable you to face up effectively not only to the challenges, but also to overcome the many pitfalls”. <\/p>\n\n

Towards a customs academy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Baptised in 1970, the current Senegalese Customs School is the main provider of personnel for the Customs Administration.\nWith the Programme de Modernisation de l’Administration des Douanes (PROMAD), a new Customs School, with a capacity\u0301 of over 500 auditors and equipped with all the necessary amenities will soon see the light of day in Sandiara, rejoices the Head of the Training Division, Lieutenant-Colonel Habib Ampa Florentin DIENG.\nThis initiative by the Director General confirms the growing importance of the \u00c9cole des Douanes, whose role in achieving PROMAD’s objectives is paramount.\nCustoms officials in Guinea-Bissau are sure to benefit even more from the expertise of their Senegalese colleagues. <\/p>\n\n

Pooling the efforts of the two administrations <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

As part of the bilateral cooperation between the customs administrations of Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, the Director General of Guinea-Bissau Customs, Dominico Oliveira SANCA, paid a working visit to the Senegalese Customs Department on October 2, 2020.\nThe two administrations noted with satisfaction the significant progress made in terms of capacity-building, notably with the training program for Bissau-Guinean Customs officers by the Senegalese Customs School, and the sharing of experience in human resources management, customs clearance procedures, post-clearance control and computerized management of customs procedures. <\/p>\n\n

Welcoming the dynamic partnership between the two customs administrations, the two parties agreed to :<\/p>\n\n