TA_CSO: Technical Assistance for Cooperation with Civil Society in the Field of Migration and International Protection

Migration and CSOs Project enables a networking platform amongst central public institutions and CSOs for cooperation on migration and international protection activities. The project encourages CSOs to work closely with central public institutions.”

The growth of the migrant population has excessively exhausted the capacities of public institutions and local administrations especially in provinces hosting high numbers of migrants and refugees. Thus, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) operating in migration-related fields started to play a significant role in providing counselling for and referral to available services. The excessive workload on public institutions resulted in the expansion of CSOs as a support mechanism. 

Although CSOs working in the field of humanitarian assistance has expanded lately, there is still a lack of a well-organized CSO network specifically in the area of migration. Most of the CSOs operating in this field had limited capacity before the Syrian crisis but they had the opportunity to expand their financial and human resources capacity with the crisis. In other words, CSOs operating in the field of migration are relatively young and there is significant room for programmatic and operational capacity development. 
Currently, there is a need for clear frameworks and mechanisms to translate policies into practice and to ensure transparent and accessible relationships between the public and civil society sectors in terms of dialogue and cooperation. 

Technical Assistance for Cooperation with Civil Society in the Field of Migration and International Protection is a two-year EU-funded Technical Assistance project aiming to further capacitate CSOs and strengthen CSO-public cooperation in the field of migration and international protection.

The overall objective of the project is to improve the capacity of Civil Society Organisations (CSO) and strengthen their cooperation with public institutions working in the field of migration and international protection.