List of the Ongoing projects in the South Eastern Europe Region

 Description

       RERI18 - "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 "

     The objective of this project is to develop and harmonize a professional skills and resource base for the countries of South Eastern Europe in preparation for an accelerated program of targeted technical assistance to prevent, control and sustain a reduction of HIV infection among injecting and other drug users. It seeks to provide priority assistance to build the basic foundation on which to develop and launch a large scale regional project focused on the delivery and diversification of HIV prevention and treatment services. The project develops common competencies in South Eastern Europe in relation to advocacy, epidemiology, specialist trainer-training skills and coordination of existing networks, resource materials and best practices. The project links, complement and dovetail with a number of existing initiatives and particularly with the work of the UNAIDS Theme Groups.

      XCES50 - " Enhancing operational capacity to investigate and disrupt Human Trafficking activities in the Western Balkans "

      This project identifies an urgent need for raising operational capacity in order to more effectively identify and disrupt the activities of organised criminal gangs involved in the trafficking of humans. The complexity of the networks involved in human trafficking and the difficulty in persuading victims to become witnesses (due to the danger of threats to them if and when they return home, and to their families) makes this a particularly difficult crime to deal with effectively. The primary objective of this project is to enhance the capability of law enforcement officials in the Western Balkans in the fight against human trafficking targeted towards Western Europe. At the end of the project, the five Western Balkans countries (Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia) will have established an operational capacity for the development of regional criminal investigations into the activities of organised criminal gangs engaged in human trafficking operations and will be better equipped and trained to disrupt the activities of these gangs. 

        XCEI89 - " Programme of capacity building in the Western Balkans and the Mediterranean Region    through targeted drug law enforcement exchange "

    The project aims to build capacity in the Western Balkans and Mediterranean Region by exchanging carefully targeted drug law enforcement officers from selected agencies of the target countries with selected European Union (EU) Member State counterpart officers. This drug law enforcement exchange programme (LExPro) places operational officers from five priority thematic areas - seaports, airports, land borders, investigative techniques (including controlled delivery) and human resource management (including training delivery). Target country officers are to be detached for a period of one month in a parallel environment in the EU Member State. Additionally within the programme the host EU Member States will detach their own officers for a return period of two weeks to work alongside the target country officers in their own unique working environments. The exchange of 'know-how' and best practices during this process will be further enhanced through detailed management reporting and a series of thematic workshops moderated by experts from EU Member States both pre and post the exchange process.

      XCES45   " Strengthening the Criminal Justice Response to Trafficking in Persons in the Black Sea    region "        

      A UNODC assessment identified certain weaknesses of the criminal justice response to human trafficking in the Member States of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC). Consultations on this matter with the Permanent International Secretariat of BSEC resulted in a common understanding that a Regional Project, which aims at fostering bilateral and multi-lateral cooperation between the BSEC countries, facilitating the transfer of expertise and best practices among the BSEC countries, and providing guidance for further action with a view to strengthening the criminal justice response to human trafficking in Black Sea region on a national level, and among the BSEC states on a regional level, would be timely and contribute to strengthening the criminal justice response to human trafficking in Black Sea region.

      SCGS29   - " Support to the criminal intelligence capacities of Serbia and Montenegro "

     The objective of this project is to support the criminal intelligence capacities of Serbia and Montenegro culminating in the development of formalized Criminal Intelligence Services in the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro. The project seeks to provide a mixture of expert advice, training and technical equipment to enable the effective collection, evaluation and collation of information followed by the analysis and dissemination of meaningful intelligence product. The Criminal Intelligence Services created function at local, regional and country levels and provide a valuable operational and strategic service in support of intelligence-led policing and the targeted disruption of organized criminal activities.

      TURG36 -  "Strengthening of the Turkish International Academy against Drugs and Organized Crime "

     The International Academy Against Drugs and Organized Crime (TADOC) is one of the most successful UNODC projects and internationally recognized training facility. Only in 2006, three regional training events were delivered at TADOC. Operation Transshipment Training Course-1-2-3 was delivered in June by Turkish Police and Customs Officers, for participants from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. 52 Participants received two-and-a-half days of computer based training (CBT), provided by TADOC, and followed by an additional two-and-a-half days of practical exercises at the Kapikule border crossings within Turkey. During the training, 15 international mentors from France, Germany, Russia, Turkey and the United States of America had the opportunity to meet the team members with whom they would be conducting the operation.

List of the Pipeline projects in the South Eastern Europe Region