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Regional Programme Office for South Eastern Europe
Overview
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has been resident as a Project Office in Bulgaria since 1999. It started with a regional Joint UNDCP - Phare Programme for Strengthening Drug Law Enforcement Capacities in Southeastern Europe.
UNODC RPOSEE Officers undertake the delivery and facilitation of day-to-day project activities at a national and regional level, acting as an interface with the local beneficiary coordinators and ensuring local compliance with the agreed integrated Work Plans. This field-based approach ensures avoiding duplication with other national and region initiatives and assists to highlight gaps where projects could be identified for future development and funding.
The Office's key regional focus is the interdiction of Afghan opiates, in transit to the lucrative western markets. Recently an expanding project portfolio has been developed in a range of UNODC mandated areas including demand reduction, school based drug abuse prevention and HIV/AIDS.
From January 2005 its presence has been formally expanded to that of Regional Project Office for South Eastern Europe (RPOSEE) maintaining a small nucleus of staff in Sofia and a network of subordinated National Project Offices in Ankara, Belgrade, Tirana, Bucharest, Bratislava and Chisinau.
The Paris Pact Initiative - Regional Coordination of Programme Development for Countries Affected by Afghan Heroin Trafficking
A partnership to counter traffic in and consumption of Afghanistan
Preparatory assistance for the development of a regional project on the diversification of HIV prevention and treatment services for injecting and other drug users in South Eastern Europe
HIV/AIDS prevention and care among injecting drug users and in prison settings in Romania
Strengthening border control capacities in Albania
Strengthening of Turkish International Academy against drugs and organized Crime (TADOC)
Support to the criminal intelligence capacities of Serbia and Montenegro
Building capacity to combat trafficking in persons in the Republic of Moldova
Strengthening the Anti-Drugs Intelligence Capacity of the Bulgarian National Customs Agency
Enhancing operational capacity to investigate and disrupt Human Trafficking activities in the Western Balkans
Programme of capacity building in the Western Balkans and the Mediterranean Region through targeted drug law enforcement exchange
