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.
Department Staff
Haile Abayneh,
Language Assistant (Addis Ababa PO)
Jenny Andersson,
Project Officer
Adiba Asadova,
Associate Project Officer
Susanna Bacher,
Project Assistant
Rami Bathish,
Project Officer
Zdenek Belonoznik,
Liaison Officer
(Kiev Project Office)
Arabelle Bernecker,
Programme Manager,
Border Management
Erzen Borut,
Programme Manager IBM
Adrian Cooper,
Internat. Trainer (Addis Ababa Project Office)
Martha Delicata,
Project Officer
Jasmina Delic,
Logistics Assistant
Marcela Entlichova,
Project Co-ordinator, GDISC ERIT
Malin Frankenhaeuser,
Project Officer
Veronika Goncharova,
Project Assistant
Fabiana Gorenstein,
Project Officer, THB
Melita Gruevska-Graham,
Project Officer
(Skopje Office)
Martin Hofmann,
Programme Manager, Migration Govenance
Ivana Hawelka,
Project/Logistics Assistant
Zurab Korganashvili, Project Officer ( ILO Georgia)
Daria Huss,
Project Assistant
Jean Lanoue,
Project Manager,
(Addis Ababa Project Office)
Richard Martinez,
Deputy Regional Coordinator for SC IBM
Viktor Makai,
Project Officer
Tobias Metzner,
Associate Project Officer
Akram Mukhamatkulov,
Project Officer
Olena Noskova,
Project Assistant
(Kiev Project Office)
Ann-Charlotte Nygard,
Senior Programme Manager
Elena Petreska,
Project Assistant
(Skopje Office)
Mariyana Radeva-Berket
Project Officer
(Croatia)
Enrico Ragaglia,
Project Officer
Jasmina Samardzic,
Project Assistant (Croatia)
Olena Silkina,
Project Assistant
(Kiev Project Office)
Brigitte Stevkovski,
Project Officer
(Skopje Office)
Wolde Tiku,
Language Assistant (Addis Ababa PO)
Winta Tsegaye,
Admin. Assistant (Addis Ababa PO)
Elisa Trossero,
Programme Manager,
Trafficking in Human Beings
Martin Wagner,
Project Officer
Monika Weber,
Project Officer
Radim Zak,
Co-ordinator,
Migration Partnerships Project

