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  • 29 June 2018
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Integrating border management in South Sudan – Nimule as a pilot under the Better Migration Management Programme

Participants of the workshop for border agencies held at Nimule on 23-24 May 2018.
Participants of the workshop for border agencies held at Nimule on 23-24 May 2018.

On 23-24 May 2018 the Better Migration Management Programme (BMM) facilitated a workshop for the border agencies at Nimule along the border with Uganda. They had operationalised the Ministerial Order No. 09/2015, which established the Integrated Border Management Committee (IBMC). The Ministerial Order calls for the establishment of these committees for all the respective land borders in the Republic of South Sudan, and Nimule Border acts as a pilot because of the level of activities. The workshop brought together fifteen (15) agencies with border roles and functions, such as Immigration, Customs Services, Wildlife and Tourism, Highway traffic police, Interpol (CID), Military Intelligence, and the National Security Services. Apart from law enforcement agencies the 37 participants also consisted of local chiefs and county authorities to ensure host community engagement. The Inspector General of the South Sudan National Police Service (SSNPS), Gen. Majak Akec Malok officially opened and closed the workshop in his capacity as the chairman of the National Coordination Mechanism and also as Inspector General of police.

Details

Publication date
29 June 2018
Region and Country
  • Regional Horn of Africa
  • South Sudan
Thematic
  • Improved migration management
Partner
  • GIZ

Programmes in the region

The specific objectives of the project are: (I) to strengthen IGAD’s capacity for coordinating and facilitating the implementation of IDDRSI to build resilience, as a means of addressing the root causes of vulnerability, forced displacement and irregular migration; and (II) to promote reform in IGAD

Region and Country
  • Horn of Africa
  • Regional Horn of Africa
Thematic
  • Improved governance and conflict prevention
  • Strengthening resilience of communities
Partner
  • Intergovernmental Authority on Development
  • GIZ

The overall objective is to improve migration management in the region, and in particular to curb the trafficking of human beings and the smuggling of migrants within and from the Horn of Africa.

Region and Country
  • Horn of Africa
  • Regional Horn of Africa
Thematic
  • Improved migration management
Partner
  • GIZ

The specific objectives will be to collate, synthesize and disseminate the outcomes of existing and new research and evidence related to instability, irregular migration and forced displacement in the Horn of Africa; to communicate the outcomes of existing and new research and evidence to, and share

Region and Country
  • Horn of Africa
  • Regional Horn of Africa
Thematic
  • Other
Partner
  • International Migration Institute, University of Oxford
  • Sahan Research
  • School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

The specific objectives of the project are:(I) to support the process of adoption, ratification and domestication of the IGAD Protocols on Free Movement of Persons and on Transhumance by IGAD Member States upon their adoption by IGAD Council of Ministers, along with complementary measures to...

Region and Country
  • Horn of Africa
  • Regional Horn of Africa
Thematic
  • Greater economic and employment opportunities
  • Improved migration management
  • Strengthening resilience of communities
Partner
  • Intergovernmental Authority on Development
  • OIT - ILO - Organisation Internationale du Travail - International Labour Organization

The specific objectives are: •To prevent local conflict and mitigate its impact;•To promote economic and private sector development, and greater resilience, particularly among vulnerable groups (e.

Region and Country
  • Horn of Africa
  • Regional Horn of Africa
Thematic
  • Greater economic and employment opportunities
  • Improved governance and conflict prevention
  • Strengthening resilience of communities
Partner
  • GIZ
  • United Nations Development Programme
  • Intergovernmental Authority on Development
  • Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Germany
  • PACT
  • Danish Refugee Council

The overall objective of the project is the following: to facilitate orderly, safe, regular and rights-based migration through the facilitation of dignified voluntary return and the implementation of development-focused and sustainable reintegration policies and processes.

Region and Country
  • Horn of Africa
  • Regional Horn of Africa
Thematic
  • Greater economic and employment opportunities
  • Improved migration management
Partner
  • International Organization for Migration