Illicit Trafficking and Border Management

Pakistan is a transit, destination, and to a significantly lesser extent, producing country for several types of drugs and internationally restricted precursor chemicals. Pakistan is also a transit, source, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labour and sexual exploitation. There are a range of criminal organisations operating in Pakistan that offer services to facilitate migrant smuggling. These types of illicit trafficking are specific challenges to Pakistan's border management - a critical issue for both economic development and security.

Programme Deliverables

UNODC's sub-programme 1 empowers Pakistani law enforcement and regulatory agencies to reduce illicit trafficking and manage borders for security and prosperity. The priority is to support the enhancement of core capacities in relevant agencies.

Another crucial core capacity targeted under this programme is information collection and analysis. Strengthening the local evidence base will enable the Government to make effective and efficient decisions, both at the broad policy level and in designing high-impact programmatic responses. Often, information is available but not collected or centralised. UNODC aims to improve these information flows and develop storage and analysis capabilities.

A regional and international perspective to Pakistan's trafficking and border issues is unavoidable, given that these issues are linked with Pakistan's neighbours and more distant countries. UNODC supports Pakistan to define, project and coordinate internationally its interests in trafficking and border management. These are opportunities for Pakistan to influence shared threats that are manifest in other countries and to use the support of those partners to take action domestically.

Based on analysis of illicit trafficking and border management issues in Pakistan, Sub-programme 1 will contribute to three outcomes through the delivery of ten key outputs.
A regional and international perspective to Pakistan's trafficking and border issues is unavoidable, given that these issues are linked with Pakistan's neighbours and more distant countries. UNODC supports Pakistan to define, project and coordinate internationally its interests in trafficking and border management. These are opportunities for Pakistan to influence shared threats that are manifest in other countries and to use the support of those partners to take action domestically.

Based on analysis of illicit trafficking and border management issues in Pakistan, sub-programme 1 will contribute to 3 outcomes through the delivery of 9 key outputs.