Support to the State Border Guard Service's strategy towards an EU-type border police / law enforcement agency aimed at reforming the human resources management system (legislation, staff recruitment, staff training, career development).By the involvement of Hungarian and Polish border guards, it aims at improving human resources management, starting from recruitment, the development of training strategies, plans and curricula in line with EU standards and requirements, and being completed with a career development programme for border guard personnel. The programme will support the transition of a military-type structured entity towards a European-type law enforcement entity.
Project Name
“Establishment of migration management in Zakarpattya in Ukraine” (2003/HLWG/039) and “Enhancing Capacities in the Area of Protection and Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Zakarpattya /Western Ukraine” (2006/120-173)
Location
Ukraine
Implementation period
June 2004 – June 2008
Implementing Partner
Osterreichische Caritaszentrale
Budget/EC contribution
€ 1.627.823,77 / € 1.302.259,02 (2003/HLWG/039)
€ 874.928,04/ € 699.942,43 (2006/120-173)
Funding Programme
HLWG B7-667
AENEAS 2005
Responsible DG
JLS and EuropeAid
Description
The projects have a humanitarian component, improving the living conditions of apprehended migrants in Zakarpattya. In addition, the activities contribute to the improvement of counselling, protection and registration of refugees while being detained and during all phases of their asylum procedure as well as to the improvement of cooperation and exchange of migration authorities and NGOs specialised in the field.
Project Name
Monitor and promote the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms of refugees and migrants
Location
Ukraine
Implementing Partner
Chernihiv Public Committee for Human Rights Protection
Budget/EC contribution
€ 78.000
Responsible DG/Del
EIDHR (European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights)
Description
This project is implemented with the aim to monitor and promote the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms of refugees and migrants with focus on the regions of Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Zakarpattya and Lviv.
Project Name
Assistance to the Legal and Administrative Reforms in Ukraine in the Sphere of Migration and Refugees’ Protection According to the Norms and Standards of the European Union (2004/87047 )
The project's objective is to increase the competence of the staff of Ukrainian institutions in asylum and asylum related matters and the inter-institutional cooperation of the institutions involved by establishing internal working relations.
Project Name
Strengthening Asylum and Protection Capacity in Ukraine by Enhancing the Capacity of Governmental and Civil Society Stakeholders in a Participatory Approach and Cross-sector Co-operation (2006/120-176)
Location
Ukraine
Implementation period
January 2007 – December 2008
Implementing Partner
Dansk Flygtningehjaelp
Budget/EC contribution
€ 534397,23 / € 427517,78
Funding Programme
AENEAS 2005
Responsible DG
EuropeAid
Description
To ensure that the Ukrainian asylum and refugee system is able to function in a transparent manner and in accordance with principles based on human rights and rule of law and in a participatory approach with civil society capacities.
Project Name
Strengthening capacities and cooperation in the identification of forged and falsified documents in Ukraine (2006/120-195)
Location
Ukraine
Implementation period
January 2007 – December 2008
Implementing Partner
ICMPD
Budget/EC contribution
€ 783.161,25 / € 626.400,6
Funding Programme
AENEAS 2005
Responsible DG
EuropeAid
Description
To contribute to an increased effectiveness in the fight against illegal migration by the Ukrainian authorities.
Project Name
Capacity building of Migration management:Ukraine Phase I and Phase II (2004/096-462 and 2006/124-449)
Location
Ukraine
Implementation period
March 2005 – December 2007
Implementing Partner
IOM
Budget/EC contribution
€ 4.204.672 / €3.781.505 (2004/096-462)
€ 3.074.474 / € 2.767.000 (2006/124-449)
Funding Programme
TACIS
Responsible DG
DEL Ukraine
Description
The activities aim at enhancing the capacity of the Government of Ukraine (GoU) to manage the migration flows and control the illegal movement of migrants to and through the territory of Ukraine. The projects seeks to do so by carrying out various interlinked actions, i.e. an assessment of migration situation, the development of best practices, based upon international standards and conventions, the refurbishment of accommodation centres for detained migrants and the piloting of a voluntary return programme, and to support the GoU’s efforts to comply with and ensure European best practices and humanitarian standards set by the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights, and the CPT as well as the harmonisation with the EU acquis communautaire.
Several projects were funded by TACIS (from RAP 2000 until NAP 2005) in view of providing the border guards of Ukraine with better equipment to control the green border and the land border crossing points (walky-talkies, radios for long distance communication including data transmission, 4 wheels cars, night-visors, metal detectors, passport readers, computers, software for data registration etc.) along the entire Northern and Eastern border with Belarus and Russia, and the South-Westborder with Moldova for an overall amount of approximately €20 million.
Under the TACIS NAP 2006, an allocation of €5 million (within a larger project addressing also Customs Service) is available to promote further improvement of the quality of Border Guards capacity of surveillance and alignment to the EU/Schengen standards. Both through this allocation and an additional €4 million which is available under the CBC programme (2006 budget) it will be possible to procure additional border equipment.
Regional Southern Caucasus
Project Name
An integrated approach to promoting legal migration through national capacity building (2005/103475)
Location
South Caucasus
Implementation period
January 2006 – December 2007
Implementing Partner
IOM
Budget/EC contribution
€ 971.747 / € 777.397
Funding Programme
AENEAS 2004
Responsible DG
EuropeAid
Description
The project contributed to the creation in the three countries of Migration Resource Centers, where information about potential and actual migrants are collected for the benefit of employers and students, and potential migrants can find information about the rules of legal migration and the risks of illegal migration. MRCs were established in 2006 in Yerevan (Armenia), Baku and Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan), Tbilisi, Kutaisi and Gurjaani (Georgia).
Project Name
Towards sustainable partnerships for the effective governance of labour migration in the Russian Federation, the Caucasus and Central Asia (2006/120-072)
This project aims at promoting a better management of legal economic migration and at increasing the level of protection of migrants' rights through seminars, trainings and legal advice in several NIS. In particular in the Russian federation it aims at developing practical methods for assessing and forecasting labour market requirements with a view to improving migration governance, as well as a system of earned regularisation and introduce sound regularisation policies and procedures.
Project Name
NGO and Governmental Cooperation Across the South Caucasus to Develop a Joint Response to Trafficking in Women and Children (2006/118051)
Location
Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia
Implementing Partner
Eesti Naisuurimus Ja Teabekeskus Mtu (Estonian Women’s Studies and Resource Center)
Budget/EC contribution
€600.000 / € 480.000
Funding Programme
EIDHR (European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights)
Responsible DG
EuropeAid
Description
The project’s goal is to raise the qualification of law enforcement staff, social services and journalists. It will establish links between these actors and establish regional referral mechanisms. The project will carry out a public awareness campaign about trafficking. It will carry out regional research and regular monitoring of the situation.
Project Name
Development of a comprehensive anti-trafficking response in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia (2006/104772)
Location
Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia
Implementation period
January 2007 – December 2008
Implementing Partner
ILO with ICMPD, OSCE
Budget/EC contribution
€ 1.874.989,76 / € 1.500.000
Funding Programme
TACIS
Responsible DG
EuropeAid
Description
This regional project aims at contributing to the progressive reduction of trafficking in human beings in the SC countries through capacity building and empowerment of actual and potential victims. It includes revision of National strategies and support to their implementation, awareness raising, strengthening capacity of national authorities and improve identification, protection and reintegration of victims.
Armenia
Project Name
Support to Migration Policy Development and Relevant Capacity Building in Armenia (2006/120-233)
Location
Armenia
Implementation period
December 2006 – November 2009
Implementing Partner
The British Council
Budget/EC contribution
€ 845.607 / € 676.485,6
Funding Programme
AENEAS 2005
Responsible DG
EuropeAid
Description
1. Raising people’s awareness on issues, costs, risks, rights and responsibilities associated with migration; contribute to the development of public demand for an improved legal framework
2. Create a structure responsible for providing advice and reintegration assistance to Armenian nationals returning from abroad. Material help will be envisaged, if at all possible, in order to further minimise the risk of repeated emigration.
3. Assisting state agencies in the process of drafting legislation and regulating migration.
Azerbaijan
Project Name
Establishment of Integrated Border Management Model at the Southern Border of Azerbaijan (TACIS/2006/109-609)
Location
Azerbaijan
Implementation period
June 2006 – June 2008
Implementing Partner
IOM
Budget/EC contribution
€ 2.185.799 / € 1.987.090
Funding Programme
TACIS
Responsible DG
EuropeAid
Description
The project will facilitate an enhanced cooperation among law enforcement agencies in the fight against border-related crimes, support the establishment and the activities of a Border Guards Training School, and contribute to procure border equipment and to improve border infrastructure. The project aims to pilot an Integrated Border Management Model at the Southern Border of Azerbaijan, in an area comprising 30 km of border intersection with Iran, including the international Border Crossing Point at Bilasuvar. The latter is the fastest land connection between Baku and Iran, and with the Nakhichevan exclave of Azerbaijan, and is the longest border Azerbaijan shares with any other country.
Georgia
Project Name
Toward Durable Re-integration Mechanisms in Georgia (2006/120-074)
Location
Georgia
Implementation period
January 2007 – October 2008
Implementing Partner
Dansk Flygtningehjaelp
Budget/EC contribution
€ 639.352,80 / € 511.354,37
Funding Programme
AENEAS 2005
Responsible DG
EuropeAid
Description
The Georgian Ministry of Refugees and Accommodation (MRA) capacitated to implement its mandatory function of supporting re-integration of returning migrants, rejected asylum seekers and other displaced groups MRA capacitated to take a co-ordinating function on issues related to re-integration of returning migrants and rejected asylum seekers vis-à-vis the relevant Georgian state actors and European Governments engaged in bilateral support to re-integration.
