On 5 September 2025, the EU-funded Border Management Programme in Central Asia (BOMCA 10) marked the completion of its 10th phase with a Closing Conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The event gathered more than 100 high-level representatives from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and national agencies of the five Central Asian countries, the Delegation of the European Union to the Kyrgyz Republic, EU Member States’ embassies, international organisations and the BOMCA Consortium and Associated Partners.
Countries
Kazakhstan / Kyrgyzstan / Tajikistan / Turkmenistan / Uzbekistan
Status
Ongoing
Duration
01.02.2026
to
31.05.2029
Donors
European Commission
Partners
Partners responsible for the thematic components:
Central Finance and Contracting Agency of the Republic of Latvia (Component 1), CIVIPOL (Component 2), International Centre for Migration Policy Development (Component 3)
Implementing partners:
INTERPOL, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Central Finance and Contracting Agency of the Republic of Latvia (Component 1), CIVIPOL (Component 2), International Centre for Migration Policy Development (Component 3)
Implementing partners:
INTERPOL, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Implementing Agency
The action is implemented by the Consortium of implementing partners led by ICMPD.
Funding
12,000,000 EUR
In February 2026, the Border Management Programme in Central Asia (BOMCA) entered into its eleventh phase with an overall budget of EUR 12 million and an implementation period of 40 months.
BOMCA is the long-standing flagship EU-funded programme in the region. Since its launch in 2003, the BOMCA Programme has focused on capacity building and institutional development of the Central Asian border agencies, developing trade corridors and the facilitation of trade, improving border management systems and eliminating drug trafficking across the Central Asia region. Each new phase of BOMCA was designed to gradually build upon and consolidate the results achieved during the preceding phases. Since BOMCA 10, border communities are actively involved in implementation, seeking to improve cross-border cooperation and trust.
BOMCA 11 is aimed at further advancing regional cross-border cooperation, tackling organised crime and improving living conditions for border regions’ population by applying integrated border management approach and gender-balanced and human-rights centred principles.
The Programme focuses on three thematic components: enhancing institutional capacity and border procedures, addressing cross-border threats, and fostering engagement with border communities. It covers five countries of the region – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.