The European Union is strengthening the safety on Ukraine’s ‘green borders’ with new equipment for more accurate data gathering, information exchange, risk analysis, and faster dispatching of border patrols in cases of violations or security threats. ICMPD’s EU4IBM-Resilience project is supporting the country’s State Border Guard Service (SBGS) to address illegal activities, including human trafficking and cross-border crimes.
Countries
Ukraine
Status
Ongoing
Duration
December 2022
to
May 2025
Donors
European Union
Partners
State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, State Customs Service of Ukraine, Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Implementing Agency
ICMPD
Funding
€ 20,500,000
Objective
The project contributes to the resilience and reinforcement of the border management in Ukraine by strengthening the capacities of Ukrainian IBM agencies in the context of war. This will help ensure, in the long term, safe international mobility of people, including by countering human trafficking, irregular migration and other forms of security threats, facilitation of trade through adapted trade routes, and increased level of security at the Ukrainian borders protecting both Ukraine and EU from conventional and hybrid threats and knock-on effects of the war.