Bosnia-Herzegovina

The aim of the bilateral projects between the Czech Republic and Bosnia and Herzegovina financed by the Czech Development Cooperation program has been since 2004 achievement of the standard level of the asylum procedure in BiH.

Since 2007 till now, the projects have been more oriented towards migration problematic, the attention has been given especially at the return policy of  the third country nationals, residence legislation, visa policy and praxis, data collection and risk analysis, documents inspection, border protection. In 2009, there was organized the on sight visit on internal Schengen inspection in cooperation with the Czech Foreigners police and the German Police.

Besides the trainings and experience exchange for the BiH Ministry of Security, Section fro asylum, the IT equipment was purchased for this partner institution in order to enhance the capacities of the Team for analysis and strategic planning.

Since 2004, the Czech Republic – Department of Asylum and Migration Policies of the Czech Ministry of the Interior – financed projects in the total amount 250 thousand EUR in BiH migration and asylum field.