Capacity Building and Operations

The objective of the Department for Capacity Building and Operations is to contribute to good migration governance in various fields of migration, border management, visa policies and human trafficking. Comprehensive institution and capacity building measures at national and regional levels are implemented in order to strengthen national and regional capacities to deal with the current challenges.

Capacity- and institution-building, technical assistance, training module- and curriculum development, national strategy formulation and implementation, monitoring and review schemes, as well as assessments and evaluations are carried out in all the substantive areas, i.e. trafficking in human beings, integrated border management, refugee/IDPs management, migration systems/migratory flow management, and the larger Justice and Home Affairs field.

Martijn Pluim, who already has a seven-year history of working for ICMPD, took over the position as Director of the Department in September 2007.