Eastern Europe and Central Asia

The Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (RO EECA) of the ICMPD was established in April 2017 and is located in Vienna, Austria. RO EECA works with over ten countries in the region and implements various projects on the ground through its offices in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Ukraine.

The main focus areas and portfolio topics of the RO in the EE&CA are the following:

Diaspora engagement
Return and Reintegration
Legal and Labour Migration
Education on Migration
Analytical Capacities and Research on migration
Migration Policy Recommendations and Support
Capacity building in different migration areas,
Border Management and Security,
Media and Migration,
Visa dialogue and Consular Affairs, etc.

Overall, the Regional Office EECA team is working on sustaining and further enhancing the established cooperation in the area of migration to enhance security, stability, and sustainable development both in the region and worldwide.

Ongoing projects in the EECA region

BOMCA 10 (Border Management Programme in Central Asia)
CareFor (Capacity for a Rights-Based Reception System for Moldova)
EU4IBM-Resilience (EU Support to Strengthening Integrated Border Management in Ukraine)
EU4IMPACT (Increasing Migrants’ Potential to Act for the Development of Armenia)
ERRIN Armenia
MOBILAZE 2 (Support to the Implementation of the Mobility Partnership with Azerbaijan)
MRC Tajikistan
TAC (Construction of a New Temporary Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers)
RRR – MFA/SMS (Resilience, Reinforcement and Recovery of Ukrainian Migration and Consular Services)
SCOP (Support to the Complex Improvement of Migration and Border Management in Moldova)
STREAMinG (Strengthening Development Impact of Migration in Georgia)
The Prague Process - multilateral migration dialogue and a policy process promoting migration partnerships among the countries of the European Union, Schengen Area, Eastern Partnership, Western Balkans, Central Asia and Turkey.