Armenia

Year: 2019
Type: Technical
Regions: Europe
Contributors: States

1. Have been finetuning our system for asylum (in collaboration with UNHCR) and continuation is priority. 

2. Improving the quality of asylum decisions via capacity building activities of the staff members of the Asylum and Legal Affairs Division of the Migration Service of Armenia; The capacity building activities of the staff members of the Asylum and Legal Affairs Division of the Migration Service of Armenia were designed in collaboration with UNHCR Armenia, that took place from September to November 2018.  The aim of the training was to foster the quality of asylum decisions through the series of trainings on regard with Country of Origin Information (COI) and legal issues.  The leading specialists in the filed were invited to hold trainings from the Yerevan State University and other Academic institutions.   Decision making templates were also revised and redesigned.   For the efficiency of the revision of the cases the time-Period for internal procedures were modified.   The Migration Service of Armenia commits itself to continue working to improve quality of the asylum system in Armenia.   In near future, the Migration Service is also intended to work with the European asylum support office (EASO).