The Regional Protection Support Project covers three countries situated along the Eastern border of EU Member States – Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine – and strives to ensure that the countries keep their doors open to all persons in need of international protection and that refugee status determination procedures are fair and effective.

The Regional Protection Support Project aims to support the Governments of Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine to implement their obligations undertaken under the 1951 Refugee Convention. Belarus and Moldova acceded to the 1951 UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees in 2001, followed by Ukraine in 2002, thus undertaking to protect refugees.

The Regional Protection Support Project is a two-year project (2009-2010), funded by the European Union, at the cost of 1 million Euro, and implemented by the UN Refugee Agency in close cooperation with the authorities – State Border Guard authorities, asylum authorities and Ministries of Interior, international organizations, civil society and refugee communities.

The project is implemented in the framework of the EC Regional Protection Programmes.