BMM-Better Migration Management

Better Migration Management

The Better Migration Management (BMM) Programme is funded by the European Union (EU) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Its implementation is led by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and co-implemented by British Council, CIVIPOL, International Organization for Migration (IOM) and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The overall objective of the Programme is to improve the human-rights based management of safe, orderly and regular migration and to support competent national authorities addressing the trafficking in human beings and the smuggling of migrants in the Horn of Africa region.

Objectives

The programme aims to enable national authorities and institutions to facilitate safe, orderly and regular migration, and address human trafficking by applying a human rights-based approach.

BMM works on three interconnected pillars

• Migration governance to establish a political basis for regionally harmonised migration management
• Effective institutions to address and reduce human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants
• Protection for victims of trafficking and vulnerable migrants

The project seeks to:

• contribute to a human rights-based management of migration and mobility on national and regional level
• strengthen cooperation between countries of origin, transit and destination in the Horn of Africa
• improve the investigation and prosecution of human trafficking
• enhance an effective and coordinated protection and assistance of vulnerable migrants and victims of trafficking, involving governmental and civil society actors

CIVIPOL, as one of the implementing partners in the third phase of BMM, is engaged in contributing to improved quality and comprehensiveness of investigations of trafficking in persons (TiP) and smuggling of migrants (SoM) cases in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.

Simultaneously CIVIPOL supports the mentioned countries in pursuing the objective of increased number of (presumed) victims of trafficking (VoT) referred by Law Enforcement Agencies to adequate protection services via National and Local Referral Mechanisms, so that they can have receive assistance, achieve social inclusion, and have access to justice.

In BMM III, CIVIPOL therefore continues implementing activities with its comprehensive, practice- but also policy-oriented and system- sustainability-focused perspective and its multi-agency and rights-based approach. 

The activities, closely planned and implemented with the national partners, are divided into following main areas:

• Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on Investigating and Prosecuting Trafficking in Persons and support to the Multi-Agency Task Forces/Working Groups established to promote and oversee the implementation of the SOPs.
• Training Curriculum for Police Academies and other Law Enforcement Training Institutions on investigating TiP and SoM, and support for its inclusion in their regular training programmes.
• Training to specialised anti-trafficking units and other key law enforcement officers and other stakeholders, including the innovative training initiative of the "Multi-agency Simulation-based trainings for investigating and prosecuting migrant smuggling and human trafficking and identifying and referring the victims to assistance”, a real case scenario in which law enforcement, labour inspectors and service providers handle TiP and SoM cases.

For More Information: 

• EU Reference: https://international-partnerships.ec.europa.eu/policies/programming/projects/promoting-safe-and-regular-migration-horn-africa_en 
• Programme Information and Publications : https://www.giz.de/en/worldwide/117840.html 

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