The objectives of the BOMCA programme are to contribute to the facilitation of legitimate trade and transit; to reduce the illicit movement of goods and people; and to help increase security in the region. The main component of BOMCA is capacity development for integrated border management (IBM) through exposure of the leadership of all agencies to European ‘best practices’ of IBM and specialized training on IBM and cross border cooperation. The programme also aims to modernize and upgrade training facilities and to improve the working conditions at border crossing points on regional trade corridors. By providing infrastructure (fully constructed and equipped BCPs and Border Outposts), equipment and training, and international markets, the programme has contributed to the strengthening of the Tajik-Afghan border.

CADAP is aimed to reduce drug trafficking, the EC launched its Central Asia Drug Action Programme (CADAP) in 2001. This programme fosters a public health approach to drug demand and an interdiction approach to drug supply. It is implemented in conjunction with the BOMCA programme and some activities (including provision of a drug detecting dog capacity) are interlinked. Under the current phase of CADAP, five drug profiling units will be built and equipped at regional airports and railway stations. A drug profiling study tour to Brussels and Paris for beneficiary agencies was organized in October 2008, followed by a regional training session in Ashgabat in November 2008. CADAP has been implemented by UNDP untill December 2009.

Project coverage: Location Tajik-Afghan border in GBAO, Tajik-Uzbek border in Kanibadam district and Dushanbe.

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Donor Agencies: European Commission and UK Government.

Project Partners: International Organisation for Migration (IOM), United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Tajik Border Force, Customs Service, Drug Control Agency

Project Library:
1. BOMCA/CADAP Project Document: Description of the Action for BOMCA 6 & BOMCA 7
2. BOMCA/CADAP EU-UNDP Annual Work Plan 2010
3. BOMCA EU Annual Work Plan 2010 (English & Russian)
3. BOMCA/CADAP UK Funds Annual Work Plan 2010
3. DRUG DETECTING DOGS ARE RE-TRAINED IN DUSHANBE (Press Release)
4. BOMCA/CADAP (Press Release)
5. Visit of Benita Ferrero-Waldner, EU Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy to Tajikistan (Eng & Rus) (Press Release)


Web links:
More detailed information available at: www.eu-bomca.org

For more information please contact Sukhrob Kaharov at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Contact details of project:
BOMCA/CADAP Office in Tajikistan
37/1 Bokhtar str., 734002,
VEFA Centre, 9th floor
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Tel.: +992 (47) 441 06 41,
Fax: +992 (47) 441 06 46.