BOMCACADAP

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BOMCA/CADAP
Programmes funded by EU

Programmes implemented
by the UNDP

• Progress Report
• June 2006

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TWO SEPARATE INTERLINKED PROGRAMMES

• BOMCA
• To facilitate the licit flow of persons and
  goods across Central Asian (CA) borders and to
  increase security in CA
• CADAP
• To foster a developmental oriented drug control
  strategy in CA that ensures sustained reduction
  of drug consumption trafficking in line with
  European Commission drug strategies

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Beneficiaries

• Principal
• Border Force (KOGG) BOMCA / CADAP
• Customs Service BOMCA / CADAP
• Drug Control Agency CADAP
• Secondary
• Ministry of Health CADAP
• Ministry of Interior CADAP
• Ministry of Justice CADAP

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Findings after initial Programme Assessments in
2004

• KOGG
• Poorly equipped
• Need additional training
• Inadequate facilities for training
• Infrastructure at BCPs and BOs either lacking or
  in poor state of repair
• Customs
• Poorly equipped particularly at Border Crossing
  Points
• Infrastructure at BCPs inadequate
• Neither used to joint working practices at BCPs

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SO WHAT ARE WE DOING ABOUT IT ?

• We spent approx 4 million in 2005
• and will spend approx. the same sum in 2006

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Two important decisions taken in late 2004

• Concentrate assistance on the Tajik Afghan
  Border
• Limit BOMCA CADAP assistance to a Pilot
  Zone in GBAO

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Pilot Zone Three BCPs Darvoz (Ruzvai) Khorogh
(Tem) Ishkashim
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PROJECT OUTPUTSCompleted and work in progress

• BOMCA
• Training
• 797 border staff given 10 days training in border
  management topics KOGG / Customs
• Computer based (self teach) programme - combating
  cross border criminal activity DCA / MoI / KOGG
• Integrated border management assessment /
  guidance handbook / training curricula being
  developed KOGG / Customs / MoH / MoA

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PROJECT OUTPUTS (Contd)

• Training (Contd)
• CADAP
• 18 drug detecting dogs handlers now working
  KOGG / Customs / DCA / MoI
• Intelligence staff trained in use of intelligence
  processing and exchange software (TAIS-ONTOS)
  KOGG / MoI
• Members of Drug Supply and Demand
• Information network trained (DAMOS project)
• DCA / MoH / NGOs

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Practical Examination
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PROJECT OUTPUTS (Contd)

• Training (Contd)
• CADAP
• Study tours (Vienna / Rome / London)
• for senior law enforcement officers / Judges/
  Prosecutors

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PROJECT OUTPUTS (Contd) Mobility
Effectiveness

• Border Crossing Points (KOGG / Customs)
  Border Outposts (KOGG)
• Vehicles
• HF radios - GPS
• Uniforms, binos, night vision eqpt
• Generators
• Computers, printers etc
• X ray machines, drug testing kits,
• Passport readers, rummage kits

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PROJECT OUTPUTS (Contd)

• INFRASTRUCTURE 1
• BOMCA
• New KOGG Officer Cadet Training Academy -
  Dushanbe
• Phase 1 completed Dec 2005
• Classrooms 13 (incl 2 computer rooms)
• Conference hall kitchen / dining
• Accommodation (112 in 28 rooms)
• Fitness centre

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PROJECT OUTPUTS (Contd)

• INFRASTRUCTURE 1
• Phase 2 Oct 2005 / Feb 2007
• Academic admin. staff offices
• Library, resource centre

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Phase II Foundations Basement January 2006
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INFRASTRUCTURE - 2

• BOMCA
• Joint working buildings staff accommodation at
  Border Crossing Points in the GBAO Pilot Zone
• Upgrading adjacent markets

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Site for joint agency working building
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Existing Customs House June August 2006
being converted into staff accommodation
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Saturday market at Ruzvai Contract let to extend
improve June August 2006
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Tem bridge
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To be converted into living accommodation June
September 2006
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Road to Faizabad open throughout the year six
hours, poor road
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Afghan BCP
Site for joint agency working building
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Improving security efficiency at Border
Crossing Points

• For integrated border management to be
  successful, the requirements are
• Proper infrastructure
• Appropriate equipment training
• BUT ABOVE ALL
• Cooperation Customs / Border Force

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Design based on 16 x 20ft ISO containers 8
stacked on 8
Joint agency BCP working building

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Other Border Crossing Points

• Sixtteen unofficial crossing points approved by
  Government authorities
• Used by NGOs in the presence of Law Enforcement
  agencies

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Used by aid agencies to access Afghan communities
that have no road connection to the hinterland
Delivering dried milk for children
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INFRASTRUCTURE - 3

• Renovation of Border Outposts in the
• Pilot Zone
• Progressive programme commencing June 2006 with
  new UK 365,000 contribution

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Where re-siting or new build in situ - modular
buildings to be erected
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Drug Detecting Dogs

• Eighteen handlers trained with new DDDs in
  Kazakhstan Uzbekistan (TBF / Customs / MoI /
  DCA)
• Vehicles, site portable kennels, dry dog food
  for one year already provided
• Satellite dog centre under construction in
  Khorogh completion July 2006

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Cooperation CoordinationMonthly Donors
Meeting
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Inter Ministerial Commission for Border
Management

• Chairman Chairman of KOGG
• Members Deputy Minister level - Ministries
  Agencies with responsibilities for border
  management
• Observers Donors their implementing agencies
• Sub Committees Approved on 30 March Training
  Drug Detecting Dogs

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ACTIVITIES IN THE PIPELINE

• Drug profiling unit at Dushanbe airport
• More study tours MoJ LEAs
• Training mobile units
• Equipment for forensic laboratories
• Additional equipment for KOGG Customs

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Future programme direction

• Tripartite meeting 12 July 2006
• Participants
• European Commission (Donor)
• UNDP (Contractor)
• Government (Beneficiary) represented by
• KOGG / Customs / DCA / MoI / MoH / MoJ

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AND FINALLY -
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BOMCA/CADAP
Programmes funded by EU

Programmes implemented
by the UNDP

• Current BOMCA Programme in Tajikistan soon to be
  partially replicated on the Afghan side under the
  BOMAF programme
• EC / UK funding (c5 million)