The IOM office in Accra, in collaboration with the Africa Capacity
Building Centre (ACBC) facilitated and organized a border
management training workshop for 21 immigration officers from air,
sea and land border posts in Ghana.

The Africa Capacity Building Centre, located in Moshi, Tanzania,
was established in 2009 based on requests from the African member
states of IOM. Its objectives are to promote international
understanding of migration issues and effective migration
governance in Africa, to develop migration management training
programmes and to build the migration management capacity of
African governments.

In order to achieve these objectives, the ACBC offers
standardized migration management trainings, transfer of expertise
through the training of trainers as well as technical assessments
and assistance.

The border management training course, given by Donato Colucci
who is a migration specialist from IOM Tanzania, covered various
topics such as data collection and management in the Ghana
Immigration Service (GIS), trafficking in persons and the smuggling
of migrants, personal identification and registration systems and
finally in-depth passport verification training.

Mrs. Elizabeth Adjei, Director of the Ghana Immigration Service,
was present at the workshop and handed out the completion
certificates to all participants. In her closing speech, she
thanked IOM for its support and this and future (GIS) border
management activities. Finally, she emphasized the importance of
the GIS / IOM partnership in building the capacity and modernizing
of the GIS to better secure Ghana's borders.

For more information, please contact:

Dyane Epstein

IOM Ghana

Tel +233 302 823218

Email: "mailto:DEpstein@iom.int">DEpstein@iom.int