Customs and Freight

The East Africa Customs And Freight Forwarding Practicing Certificate Training Programme (EACFFPC)

Improved Effective Trade Logistic Services

Intended Impact

To reduce freight logistics cost by minimising the number of errors in customs entries and consignment clearances in the region through improved knowledge and skills of freight forwarders and clearing agents.

Impact

• A strong positive impact in improving service quality, timeliness and cost.
• A faster and lower cost service to their importer/exporter client

EAS gazetted against a target of 110

EAS harmonised and gazetted

Testing time reduced from 38 days to 10 days.

Testing cost reduced from US$ 500 to US$205

Recommendations: 1.

Study the difference between trained and untrained agents

This is to ascertain the number of customs declaration errors made by both agents and the extent to which translates into time/cost implications for traders.

2.: Alternative delivery models for the EACFFPC training and certification

To lobby EAC members of parliament to enact the EAC standards laws and approve the standards policy.

3.: EACFFPC curriculum revision

To promote free movement of the most traded goods through priority certification.

Lessons

Through TMA support, national or regional policy changes such as the EACFFPC licencing of forwarding and clearing firms can be made based on sound research around costs, risks and benefits of the policy change.

To support improved project performance and risk management, a project design and ongoing project management with a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) component should be put in place. It should be systematically identified, mitigated and monitored throughout project delivery.

Systematically assessing the implications of gender mainstreaming requires more than disaggregation of monitoring data. Gender perspectives should be planned, ongoing and completed project activities.

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