Welcome to the ICMPD Silk Routes
Online Training Platform. The Online Training Platform is the online hub for
accessing digital and distance learning courses and related training material
on migration topics tailor-made for migration, law enforcement, social and
labour authorities and border management agencies across the countries of the
Silk Routes Region.
The Online Training Platform is a
single point of access for:
- Participating in pre-scheduled distance learning
courses, including live tutorials, e-learning courses and assessment and
evaluation activities
- Essential reading on various migration topics
The training courses are intended
to support
government officials in operational and managerial positions across all Silk Routes countries acquire
and advance knowledge, skills and operational capacity across all domains of
migration policy and migration management, including:
- Legal and Labour migration
- Trafficking in Human Beings, Smuggling of Migrants
and Irregular Migration
- Integrated Border Management
The Online Training Platform
currently supports deliver of technical capacity building training under the
following projects:
Improving Migration Management in
the Silk Routes Countries funded
by the European Union, aims to maximise the development potential of migration
and mobility within the Silk Routes region and towards major labour receiving
countries as well as to establish comprehensive regional responses to migration
and mobility with full respect of human rights and protection of migrants. The
specific objectives are essentially to strengthen the regional dialogue based
on shared and clear understanding of migration and mobility between the Silk
Routes countries and European counterparts; improve migration governance and
mobility; operationalise the Migration dialogue.
Integrated Border Management in
the Silk Routes Countries – The IBM Silk Routes aims at supporting Silk
Routes countries increase their strategic and operational capacity to manage
open but secure borders following the principles of the Integrated Border
Management (IBM) concept. The project supports training for senior staff,
operational staff and specialists in all relevant border management agencies,
in particular for border and immigration police, coast guards, customs, armed
forces and migration authorities, as well as training institutions of these
agencies. Training topics are grouped under the following headings: strategic
border management, border control operations, fight against cross-border crime,
trade facilitation, as well as general support in areas such as project
management or language skills.
Both projects encompass strong
technical assistance and capacity building components that is reflected in the
content of the Online Training Platform.