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.
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 phase, 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.