From October 6-7, the latest round of National Steering Group (NSG) meetings was held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The meeting was aimed at reviewing the Programme’s progress for the year and to define plans for the upcoming period. For this purpose, the BOMCA 10 leadership, representatives of the European Union and implementing partners met with the key partners, such as state agencies and international organisations.
From 4 to 5 October 2022, the Border Management Programme in Central Asia held a training course on evidence-based migration research, data gathering and analytical work for the junior staff of focus state agencies, as well as the employees who have just received analytical work as part of their new professional portfolio.
From October 3-4, the next round of National Steering Group (NSG) meetings was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. NSG was aimed at reviewing the Programme’s progress for the year and to define plans for the upcoming period. For this purpose, the BOMCA 10 leadership, representatives of the European Union and implementing partners met with the key partners, such as state agencies and international organisations.
From October 3-4, the next round of National Steering Group (NSG) meetings was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. NSG was aimed at reviewing the Programme’s progress for the year and to define plans for the upcoming period. For this purpose, the BOMCA 10 leadership, representatives of the European Union and implementing partners met with the key partners, such as state agencies and international organisations.
From 27 to 30 September 2022, the Border Management Programme in Central Asia held training for representatives of local authorities coming from the several Tajik border regions working with the border areas population directly, as well as representatives of governmental authorities based in Dushanbe that implement regional policies in the areas of migration, economic development and gender.
From 27 to 29 September 2022, the EU-funded Border Management Programme in Central Asia held a regional workshop in Riga, Latvia on the recognition of anomalies in X-ray images for freight transport on land borders for custom officials of Central Asian countries.
From 27 to 29 September 2022, the Border Management Programme in Central Asia held national workshop in Tashkent on risk analysis for representatives of the border guard, customs and law enforcement agencies engaged in the border management of Uzbekistan.
From September 21 to 23 in Tajikistan and from September 26 to 28 in Kazakhstan BOMCA 10 held national workshop followed by technical assistance on the improvement of customs processes and e-services, related to electronic submission and processing of customs documents, as well as the development of a “single window” in Central Asian countries.
On September 23, the Border Management Programme in Central Asia completed its training of trainers (ToT) course for dog handling instructors specializing in the search for explosives, ammunition, and weapons. This ToT was organized within the framework of BOMCA Programme’s Component 2, “Improvement of detection capacities to counter cross-border crime”.
