1. Establishment of network for co-operation among border police on international airport border crossing points in MARRI Member States
2. ATR Data Collection Info Management in SEE

01. Establishment of network for co-operation among border police on international airport border crossing points in MARRI Member States (Co-operation among border police on IA BCPs in MARRI MS)

Project “Establishment of network for co-operation among border police on international airport border crossing points in MARRI Member States” started on 1 November 2009.

Its beneficiaries are MARRI Member States national authorities responsible for border management in particular border police on IA BCP’s, while the project shall last for eleven months. MARRI Regional Centre will perform the role of the implementing agency coordinating and managing all the activities necessary for the implementation of the Project.

Overall objective of the project is to improve the capacities of MARRI Member States national authorities responsible for border management in particular border police on IA BCP’s to address issues of irregular migration and crime/terrorism on sustainable and permanent basis, thus contributing to the harmonisation of regional standards in combating irregular migration and to channel irregular flows to regular ones.

Specific objectives of the Project are to establish/improve more effective regional cooperation and information exchange mechanisms between border police on IA BCP’s in MMS, increase efficiency in secure movement of persons and goods as well as to prevent/reduce crime/terrorism and irregular migration.

The main output of the Project is establishment of effective regional co-operation network among border police on international airport BCP’s as well as establishment and setting to function of a permanent regional working group.

For further information, please contact us at info@marri-rc.org.mk

02. ATR Data Collection Info Management in SEE (ATR Data Collection Info Management )

The Programme for the Enhancement of Anti-trafficking Responses in South Eastern Europe – Data Collection and Information Management (Phase I) has started in September 2006 and was implemented by International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) in partnership with EUROPOL, ACTA and the MARRI Regional Centre in Skopje. The countries participating in this programme were Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia.

The Programme for the Enhancement of Anti-trafficking Responses in South-Eastern Europe: Data Collection and Information Management Phase II Data Processing, Maintenance and Analysis (DJM Phase II) was launched on 1 September 2008. The 18-month DCIM Phase II Programme is funded by the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The International Centre for Migration Policy Development is implementing the Programme, in partnership with the Migration, Asylum, Refugees Regional Initiative (MARRI), the Office of the Dutch National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings, Europol, and the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI Center).

The participating countries in this Programme are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.

The overall objective of the DCIM Phase II is to build upon the achievements of the Programme for the Enhancement of Anti-trafficking Responses in South-Eastern Europe: Data Collection and Information Management (DCIM Phase I), and to strengthen the capacities of participating countries to monitor, evaluate and review their National Anti-Trafficking Responses. Specifically the project builds up the capacities of the participating institutions to process, analyse, present and consequently transform into relevant programmatic information and activities the information contained in the DCIM databases, developed in the course of the DCIM Phase I. While ensuring that the criteria and methods for analysing and presenting Trafficking in Human Beings (THB) statistical data are regionally harmonised and correspond to the commonly accepted international standards and norms.

To this end the project aims to train local actors on the utilisation of the collected data in the design of effective policies and targeted programmatic activities corresponding the specific needs and trends of each country. Additionally, the project aims to assess to what extent countries are able and willing to compare and exchange THB data with other countries. In order to achieve these objectives, the project will aim to strengthen co-operation between the relevant national repositories and other relevant actors working in the field of THB data collection, including governmental and non-governmental actors.

For further information on this programme, please contact the responsible project officer Mr Enrico Ragaglia (enrico.ragaglia@icmpd.org, Tel: ++43 1 504 46 77 72).