ANNEX I: STATEMENT OF WORK U.S. Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) Evaluation of PRM-Supported Initiatives to Prevent and Reduce Statelessness Nature and Purpose of the Evaluation The purpose of this task order is to obtain the services of a contractor to carry out an evaluation, lasting up to ten months of PRM-supported initiatives to prevent and reduce statelessness. The Department of State provides humanitarian assistance and engages in diplomacy to prevent and reduce statelessness and to protect stateless persons. The Department advocates on behalf of stateless people with foreign governments and civil society organizations and conducts field monitoring of the conditions and challenges that stateless people encounter. The United States is the single largest donor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the U.N. agency mandated to identify and protect stateless people and to prevent and reduce statelessness. This evaluation will give particular attention to UNHCR's Global Action Plan to End Statelessness 2014—2024, a 10-year plan that seeks to mobilize governments and other stakeholders to end statelessness by 2024. PRM complements its support of UNHCR’s statelessness activities with concerted diplomatic efforts to encourage governments to prevent and reduce statelessness in Burma, Cote d’Ivoire, the Dominican Republic, Thailand, Ukraine, and other countries. PRM also supports the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights – a key effort to mobilize civil society to advocate for reform of nationality laws that prohibit women from transmitting their citizenship to their children on an equal basis with men. To date, efforts to prevent and reduce statelessness have not been formally evaluated by PRM. This evaluation is intended to give greater insight into the progress since the launch of UNHCR's Global Action Plan to End Statelessness and provide concrete inputs to PRM on ways to tailor assistance and diplomacy aimed at preventing and reducing statelessness. It will consist of: (1) an analysis of relevant literature and reporting by PRM partners; (2) analysis of consultations with key individuals at the headquarters of selected partners as well as in the field; and (3) the consolidation of recommendations that will inform PRM’s policy approach to statelessness and strengthen the ability of PRM-funded efforts to prevent and reduce statelessness. The desk review, consultations, and analysis will focus on the following areas: (1) The ways in which PRM investments in statelessness initiatives contribute to the prevention and reduction of statelessness; (2) progress or challenges faced in relation to implementation of the overall strategic goals set out in UNHCR’s Global Action Plan; and (3) how PRM can better support the ability of statelessness initiatives to prevent and reduce statelessness, including improving efforts to raise awareness on this issue. The primary audience for the evaluation is PRM and UNHCR. Evaluation findings shall be targeted, concrete, actionable, and tailored to the work of PRM and its partners and the particular focus of the initiative. Unless doing so creates security risks or raises other concerns, the final evaluation report will be shared publicly and/or posted for external consumption. Background and Current Status of the Effort PRM’s mission is to provide protection, ease suffering, and resolve the plight of persecuted and uprooted people around the world on behalf of the American people by working with other governments and international partners. This shares the burden of providing life-sustaining assistance and seeks durable solutions by working through multilateral systems to build global partnerships, ensure compliance with international norms and standards and promote best practices in humanitarian response. 61