access nationality and the documentation to prove it. This is our strategy: work with local communities to try to build an interest in preventing and resolving stateless; identify who is stateless; and partner with allies in government, international organizations like the Inter-Parliamentary Union, civil society and supporters and influencers like Cate Blanchett to advocate for change. To increase accessions to both the 1961 Convention and its sister Convention, the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, we will be following up with the States that delivered pledges at the 2019 High Level Segment on Statelessness to accede to one or both of these. We will also be encouraging States that are already party to advocate with other States, as that peerto-peer dialogue is so important. Also, we will be having a treaty event in September to welcome all those that have recently joined the 1961 Convention. And we will have other events to raise awareness. But the key thing I think will be increased resources and staff to work on these issues and stepped up advocacy as we enter the final stretch now. On 16 June, in Ukraine, UNHCR and partner organizations held a webinar for employees of the State Migration Service involved in implementing the Statelessness Determination Procedure recently established in Ukraine. The participants were trained on communication and interview techniques as well as the various profiles of stateless people in Ukraine. Good practices were presented on the basis of SDP interviews in Hungary, Kosovo (S/RES/1244(1999)), Moldova, Montenegro, and the United Kingdom. On 17 and 18 June, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, the National Human Rights Centre and UNHCR conducted a “training of trainers” on nationality and statelessness matters for government officials with the aim of incorporating the content in the existing human rights trainings for law-enforcement and other officials. A statelessness determination applicant at the State Migration Service in the Kirovohrad region. © State Migration Service Directorate On 26 May, the Government of Kenya launched a 60-day Rapid Results Initiative (RRI) to expedite the re-acquisition of Kenyan nationality for those individuals who had lost it due to historical legislative changes, as well as the acquisition of nationality for other groups. The Government Taskforce on Statelessness subsequently confirmed that other stateless groups, including stateless persons of Rwandan descent, can benefit from the procedure. Since the announcement, UNHCR and the Kenya Human Rights Commission have been collaborating with community leaders from stateless communities to explore how they can support them with their nationality applications. 5