About
SCG’s Maritime and Border Security Program utilizes a multi-tiered approach to regional and national land and maritime borders and border “hotspots.” SCG has more than a decade of experience implementing border security programming. Our approach includes strengthening and facilitating interministerial coordination and response, generating operational capacity and interoperability, and promoting cooperation among security actors and between security actors and local communities.
How We Do It
- Conduct substantive threat, institutional, and gap assessments of border management, operations, and community engagement.
- Develop strategic plans, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), related guidance, and training for implementation.
- Build operational capacity through tabletop simulations and tailored trainings for border security forces, agencies, and other stakeholders.
- Facilitate inter-ministerial coordination, enhance response effectiveness, and develop coordinated response options.
- Develop mechanisms for cross-border regional cooperation among border security institutions and between border security actors and communities to enhance border security management.
About
Maritime Law Enforcement in the Eastern Caribbean
The Eastern Caribbean faces maritime threats from transnational criminal organizations, that take advantage of the region’s porous borders to traffic illicit firearms, drugs, and people. To support the member states of the Regional Security System (RSS)—including Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines—to develop a unified operational approach for confronting maritime crime, Strategic Capacity Group (SCG) designed and delivered a project to build the capacity of the RSS and its member states to conduct maritime law enforcement operations and investigations, dismantle transnational organized crime, and streamline criminal justice procedures.
Border Security and Illicit Trafficking
With support from, Strategic Capacity Group conducted a border management assessment in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia for the Department of State’s Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) program. Findings informed additional analysis of Libya’s border security training capacity for border guards and officials, a series of country-specific and regional trainings to address identified gaps, and programming recommendations to inform U.S. government efforts to assist border security institutions and units in the region advance security and border management.
