EU Border Management Programme for Central Asia (BOMCA)

The overall objective of BOMCA is to secure the gradual adoption of modern border management methods in Central Asia. Modern Border Management aims at two equally important purposes:

BOMCA aims to achieve these twin objectives through the introduction of European-style integrated border management (IBM) methodologies. IBM has three pillars: intra-Agency coordination, inter-Agency working, and international co-operation. The BOMCA strategy to introduce IBM in Central Asia comprises three components:

Policy Advice, Legal & Institutional Reform: BOMCA has established inter-Ministerial Commissions and Inter-Agency Working Groups in each country to familiarise decision-makers with options for IBM implementation and to initiate the necessary legislative and regulatory reforms necessary to institutionalise the IBM framework;
Strengthening National Training Capacities: BOMCA is renovating and equipping Training Centres for Border Agencies in all give countries of Central Asia, introducing IBM components to national training curricula, and establishing national training capacities through a “training-of-trainers” approach that utilises the best of European expertise;
Pilot Site Trials in Integrated Border Management: BOMCA is providing infrastructure, equipment and “on-the-job” training in key skills to Border Agency staff at selected airports, seaports and stretches of green border in Central Asia, with a view to national governments running trials of IBM in these pilot sites under future phases of the Programme

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