RECOMMENDATIONS The Evaluation Team held virtual separate Feedback and Validation Workshops with PRM and UNHCR to gather input into the evaluation’s recommendations and ensure they are tailored to PRM’s goals. During the workshops the Evaluation Team shared conclusions, led a prioritization exercise, and workshopped high-priority recommendations. The following list includes recommendations that are directly linked to enhancing key aspects of PRM’s statelessness strategy including funding, staffing, mainstreaming, and diplomacy developed based on PRM’s inputs and feedback. A further comprehensive list of recommendations is included in Annex B for PRM’s consideration. OVERALL 1. The Evaluation Team recommends that PRM update its statelessness strategy to: • Encourage UNHCR to give adequate and appropriate attention to its statelessness mandate to achieve “mandate equality” with its refugee mandate by: o Elevating statelessness within the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees; o Addressing concerns that regionalization is weakening the prioritization of statelessness; and o Replacing the “Statelessness Section” with a “Statelessness Division” or “Statelessness Service.” STAFFING, TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2. Elevate the PRM Statelessness Focal Point role so that it is fully dedicated to statelessness. 3. Urge UNHCR to enact the following staffing reforms: • Advance temporary staff with statelessness expertise into staff positions, create clear staff reporting lines on statelessness and highlight statelessness within the TOR for all protection staff. • Make UNHCR statelessness training available to RefCoords and urge UNHCR to make statelessness training mandatory for all protection, program, and external relations staff. 4. Issue clear guidance to RefCoords that statelessness is a high priority for PRM and reflect this through greater leadership and coordination by PRM Washington. 5. Encourage UNHCR to add statelessness as a standing agenda item for the annual global Representatives meeting and regional Representatives’ meetings. 6. Encourage UNHCR to organize online, periodic, regional protection retreats for UNHCR protection staff to share best practices on statelessness. MAINSTREAMING WITHIN DOS AND US EMBASSIES 7. Raise awareness among PRM regional offices and Department bureaus of the link between racism, ethnic, religious, and gender discrimination and statelessness. Addressing this root cause can help advance the GAP Action 1: “resolve existing major situations of statelessness.” 8. Educate other Department bureaus, including DRL and the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons on how statelessness is a cross-cutting development, human rights, and democracy issue. This includes highlighting the link between access to citizenship and maintaining a stable and peaceful democracy. Consider joint planning between PRM and DRL. 9. Encourage RefCoords and Embassy staff with statelessness monitoring in their mandate to engage with the USAID mission at country level, raise awareness of the stateless population, and advocate including stateless populations as a part of social inclusion of vulnerable populations efforts within U.S. foreign assistance. Suggest encouraging RefCoords and UNHCR to facilitate UN Country Team engagement with USAID missions and their partners. PRM FUNDING TO PARTNERS 10. Provide contributions to UNHCR country operations to identify and fund local CSOs to create momentum on statelessness before the end of the #IBelong campaign. The Evaluation Team’s 31