On 22 & 23 October 2012 in Sarajevo, GIZ organized Third regional Workshop on “Migration policy in the Western Balkans”. MARRI RC was invited to make presentation, as a relevant regional organization. The Workshop was focused on institutional setting of development-oriented Diaspora Policy. Representatives of institutions in the Western Balkans, selected EU Member States, national and international experts were invited to discuss good practices and lessons learned within the focus on Institutional Setting of development-oriented Diaspora Policy. View gallery
On 17 – 18 October, 2012 in Ohrid on the International Conference on suppression of drug crimes, organized by the Macedonian Ministry of Interior and DCAF, the MARRI RC Director Trpe Stojanovski made presentation with topic “The Regional Cooperation as Platform for Effective Law Enforcement, the case study of MARRI Initiative”. The presentation was based on the research done by MARRI, but also used data from the research based on the EU FP 7 Project Composite relevant to the regional
On 15th of October, 2012 in Belgrade, the Judicial Academy of Serbia, MARRI RC, UN Gift, IOM, UNODC, UNHCR and the Government of Serbia organized the Conference on “Criminal Justice Response to Human Trafficking in the South East Europe”. The Conference brings together the state representatives of the countries from the region responsible for THB, NGOs, International organizations and diplomatic core from the donor countries. The event was opened by the Prime Minister Ivica Dacic. This event was important for
On 27th of September, 2012 in Hotel Arka , in Skopje, the Seventh Informational Exchange Meeting with EU and MARRI MS consular representatives was held. The meeting was organized by IOM and MARRI RC as part of the Project named “Migration for Development in the Western Balkans” (MIDWEB). The representatives from EU Delegation in Skopje and other relevant organizations, as well as EU and MARRI MS consular departments’ staff located in Skopje were present. The participants had the opportunity to
On 20thSeptember 2012 in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, Third meeting of the Project Strategic Committee consisted of Heads of the Border Police Services of the Project “Joint comprehensive approach in building co-operation between MARRI and SEPCA Member States’ border police on international airports” was organized in partnership with the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Macedonia and Bureau of Public Security – Sector for Border Affairs and Migration. H.E Gordana Jankuloska, Minister of Interior of the Republic of Macedonia
On 18 September, 2012 in Podgorica, the Fourth Steering Committee Meeting of the project Migration for Development in the Western Balkans (MIDWEB) was held. The MARRI RC Director was invited on this event representing MARRI RC as partner, but also as Chair of the Steering Committee Board. The meeting was attended by EU representative, the partner organizations as well as by the high level representatives from the beneficiary countries/ Ministry of labour. The project manager Ms. Magdalena Majkowska-Tomkin from IOM
In the framework of the Project “Joint comprehensive approach in building co-operation between MARRI and SEPCA Member States’ border police on international airport border crossing points”, the second Workshop on “Risk analysis on international airports” was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 27-29 June 2012. Main objective of the Workshop was to improve capacities of Border Police risk analysis units on the international airports to perform risk analysis, both in the areas of irregular migration, trafficking of human beings and
Skopje, 7th June 2012 – International Organization for Migration (IOM) and MARRI RC organize the Roundtable on best practices in professional and socio-economic reintegration of skilled migrants, as a part of ongoing MIDWEB Project, in which MARRI RC is partner. The Roundtable will be held on 7th of June, 2012 in Hotel Arka, in Skopje. The main goal of the Roundtable is to exchange experience on the subject and to discuss and indentify modalities for further cooperation in that field.
From 06 to 08.06.2012 in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, RACVIAC-Centre for Security Cooperation and MARRI-Migration, Asylum, Refugees Regional Initiative organized a Round table titled ‘Irregular Migration and Its Effects on Security’. The main purpose of the Round table is exchanging the information regarding the legislative aspects, standards, procedures, lessons learned and the challenges faced. The representative from EU Delegation in Macedonia made introductory speech. The experts from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, SELEC, RACVIAC and MARRI
On 26th April 2012 at Sofia International Airport, Bulgaria, in the framework of the Project “Joint comprehensive approach in building co-operation between MARRI and SEPCA Member States’ border police on international airport border crossing points, a Workshop on the topic “Current irregular migration trends, routes and modus operandi at the international airport border crossing points” was organized for the members of the Permanent Inter-Regional Working Group/Network for Cooperation consisted of Commanders of the Border Police Units from main international airports.
