On 13-14 July a study visit to Austria took place in  the framework of the project “Strengthening Capacities and Cooperation in the Identification of Forged and Falsified Travel Documents at the Moldova-Romania Border”. During the visit representatives from the Moldovan Border Guard Service, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Informational Technologies and Communication as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration had an opportunity to share and gather experience on document security and information exchange with the Austrian colleagues. Moldovan participants visited the Austrian State Printing House where the hosts presented their services including the facilities for producing passports and e-Government unit. Another part of the visit was dedicated to the International Airport Vienna- Schwechat. The overall work of the Austrian Border Police was presented and the Moldovan participants had a possibility to see also offices, technical equipment and the entire airport premises.

The “Inventory of Institutional Capacities and Practices” of the joint ICMPD-IOM project “Linking Emigrant Communities for More Development” implemented under the framework of the Dialogue on Mediterranean Transit Migration (MTM) is now available for download.

EN Version / FR Version / AR Version

You can download individual Country Chapters of the Inventory of Institutional Capacities and Practices in pdf format in the three working languages from the Emigrant Communities project webpage.

The Inventory is also available online on the MTM Interactive Map on Migration (i-Map) Migration & Development Layer (www.imap-migration.org).

Workshops on “Skills training on IBM” took place in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan during the months of spring and summer 2010.  The aim of these workshops was to equip participants with specific professional skills needed for daily work at the border crossing points such as workflow analysis, risk awareness and assessment, observation and interviewing, profiling and information exchange. The participants received knowledge on IBM concepts and principles as well as EU good practices in the area of IBM.  Additionally, the participants were acquainted with the IBM Training Manual, developed by ICMPD.  

Trainings on “Modern methodologies on intelligence gathering and risk analysis on drug trafficking” were conducted in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan for the staff of Drug Profiling Units (DPU) this spring.  The participants were exposed to different ways of intelligence gathering through the experiences of a criminal police of one of the EU member states.  DPU staff were engaged in indebt discussions and gathered knowledge especially in the field of conducting control deliveries, interagency cooperation, surveillance of the internet, use of undercover agents, and risk analysis

 BOMCA VII.

Migration EU Expertise (MIEUX) is a Joint EC-ICMPD initiative to support third countries in addressing irregular migration and mixed migratory flows as part of a comprehensive approach to migration management.
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On 12 – 16 July, a study visit to Lithuania was organized for the officials of border agencies from Armenia and Georgia. During the study visit, participants received an in-depth knowledge about the structure, mandate, and activities of the State Border Guard Service of Lithuania and Customs Department as well as the Vilnius Frontier District.  A practical visit to the Lavoriskiu Frontier Station and Lavoriskiu road border crossing point (BCP) on the border with Belarus demonstrated IBM cooperation on all levels.  At the Kena Frontier Station and Kena rail BCP, participants learned about the practicalities of facilitating the Kaliningrad rail transit via Lithuanian territory. Additionally, participants were exposed to the activities and training system of the Border Guards School in Medininkai as well as the work of the Foreigners Registration Centre in Pabrade and Aviation Unit in Paluknys.

 SCIBM.

The “Building Migration Partnerships”. Workshop on Extended Migration Profiles, hosted by the Polish Ministry of Interior and Administration, took place in Warsaw on 21-22 June 2010 and gathered representatives of 32 countries including Spain, being the current EU Presidency, the European Commission (JLS), Frontex, ICMPD, IOM, MARRI and UNHCR. Apart from states-parties to the BMP Joint Declaration, for the first time the Republic of Belarus was invited to this meeting as an observer with a perspective of joining BMP.