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COMBATING TRAFFICKING IN ILLEGAL DRUGS (BUMAD PROGRAMME)
In recent years, Belarus has been faced with increasing problems associated with the traffic and transit of illicit drugs while at the same time drug consumption rates have been steadily rising. The BUMAD regional Programme, a Programme of Assistance for the Prevention of Drug Abuse and Drug Trafficking in Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova, aims at reducing drug trafficking from and through these countries to EU member states. The programme, which is funded by the European Union, aims at building Belarus national capacity to combat illegal drug trafficking, in partnership with the Ministries of Interior and Health, State Boarder Guard and Customs Committees and relevant NGOs, to prevent this from becoming a mainstream developmental issue for the country.

Additional information about the “Programme of Assistance for the Prevention of Drug Abuse and Drug Trafficking in Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova” can be found at: http://bumad.un.kiev.ua.

COMBATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Over the past decade, trafficking in human beings has reached epidemic proportions. No country is immune. It is believed to grow fastest in Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. While there is no reliable data on the number of citizens of Belarus who are being trafficked abroad, assessments vary between tens and thousands of persons a year. UNDP works to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, the State Border Guard Committee, and NGOs to combat trafficking in the women of Belarus and to reduce illegal migration into both Belarus and the European Union. The EU-funded UNDP project on ‘Combating Women Trafficking’ contributed to the development of trans-border cooperation between Belarus and the European Union in the areas of justice and domestic affairs. The project allowed to develop a prevention strategy through the creation of a database the establishment of a hotline and a series of public awareness initiatives as well as helping to protect victims of human trafficking through the construction of shelter facilities.

The new project “Preventing, Fighting and Addressing the Social Consequences of Trafficking in Human Beings in the Republic of Belarus” is a logical continuation of the previous one.

ON-GOING PROJECTS

00062779 Preventing, Fighting and Addressing the Social Consequences of Trafficking in Human Beings in the Republic of Belarus (12/2008-12/2010)

COMPLETED PROJECTS

00011740 Combating Trafficking in Women in Belarus (2003-2004)

Belarus/Ukraine/Moldova Anti-drug Trafficking (BUMAD I) (01/2003-10/2004)

00040102 Assistance for the Prevention of Drug Abuse and Drug Trafficking in Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova (BUMAD II Programme) (11/2004-12/2006)

00052629 Program for the Prevention of Drug Abuse and the Fight against Drug Trafficking in Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova, 3rd phase (BUMAD-3) (01/2007-06/2009)

00044032 Enhancing Border Management in the Republic of Belarus (BOMBEL) Programme, funded by the European Union (03/2005-12/2006)

00052724 Enhancing the System of Immigration Control at the State Border of the Republic of Belarus” (BOMBEL-2) (09/2006–04/2008)

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