Technical Assistance for the Preparation of Border Surveillance Area Survey in Turkey

Overall Objective:

• Developing and strengthening Turkey’s legal, institutional and technical capacity for alignment with EU’s integrated border management (IBM) policy and to support the Turkish Government in transforming the current border management to an integrated one by detailing the Action Plan in the form of a Roadmap defined in the Action Plan and ensure further development of high level border management architecture and standards in line with EU’s IBM policies and strategies.
  
• Definition of future investment requirements to ensure harmonisation with the EU requirements as it relates to Border Management

Project purpose:

• To perform a comprehensive needs analysis and report on border surveillance in Turkey’s green and blue borders by conducting site surveys to the border areas to improve blue and green border surveillance in compliance with EU Acquis and best practices
  
• To give clear recommendations on technical infrastructure and administrative needs (determination and deployment of border surveillance equipment, power and water supply, surveillance premises, road construction, number of staff etc) for an efficient border surveillance,
  
• To advise models to strengthen the control of green and blue borders, cooperation, information sharing, communication management and interoperability between border surveillance agencies within Turkey for the purpose of efficient border surveillance

Results to be Achieved:

• Gap Analysis report on border surveillance in Turkey’s green and blue borders,
  
• Needs Assessment and Feasibility Study Report based on site surveys,
  
• Risk Assessment Report to identify risks and the countermeasures,
  
• Technical Analysis Report including identification of border security systems for border surveillance in Turkey’s green and blue borders; border surveillance models and procedure for the roadmap, cost/benefit based investment plan and practical deployment plan.