EU Support to Strengthening IBM in Ukraine (EU for Solidarity Lanes and IBM) <p class="ql-align-justify">The proposed Action aims to address urgent and strategic needs of the Ukrainian IBM actors in the context of the ongoing Russian war against Ukraine, particularly in migration and border management as well as trade facilitation. The Action is considered as an interim measure before the EU is ready to embark on the next large scale IBM assistance initiative for Ukraine. The result structure of the proposed Action is defined as follows.</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong style="color: black;"> </strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong style="color: black;">Overall objective (impact)</strong><span style="color: black;">: Contribute to Ukraine¿s trade facilitation and economic recovery from the war through improving flows of essential goods through Border Crossing Points (BCPs) and support the enhanced resilience of Ukrainian border and migration authorities in performing their core IBM functions.</span></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong style="color: black;"> </strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong>Specific objective 1 (outcome)</strong>: Border infrastructure is improved in order to optimize flows in exporting essential commodities including agricultural goods out of Ukraine.</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify">To contribute to achievement of the specific objective, the project expects achievement of the following project results (outputs):</p><p><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong><u>Result 1.1</u></strong>: Urgent engineering works at priority BCP(s) are completed, enabling new lanes into operation and improve trade flows in close coordination with Ukrainian customs and border authorities, counterparts in neighbouring countries, EU institutions and other actors <strong>(Urgent engineering works at priority BCP(s))</strong>.</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><u> </u></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong><u>Result 1.2</u></strong>: An in-depth feasibility assessment is conducted on the follow-up engineering works and trade facilitation measures at priority BCP(s) <strong>(Assessing the scope of further BCP engineering works and trade facilitation measures)</strong>.</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong style="color: black;"> </strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong>Specific objective 2 (outcome)</strong>: The resilience and business continuity of Ukrainian IBM actors are enhanced in the context of the ongoing Russian war against Ukraine through continued technical and policy development support to relevant authorities.</p><p class="ql-align-justify">&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">To contribute to achievement of the specific objective, the project expects achievement of the following project results (outputs):</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong><u>Result 2.1</u></strong>: Priority information systems and data/cyber security infrastructure of Ukrainian migration and border authorities are enhanced to better address new challenges in the context of the Russian war against Ukraine <strong>(Continued technical assistance for MFA, SBGS and SMS)</strong>.</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><u>&nbsp;</u></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong><u>Result 2.2</u></strong>: Expert support in migration policy development is available to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Migration Service and relevant state authorities <strong>(Migration policy development support)</strong>.</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p>