Reports produced by the Statelessness Section. The UNHCR Statelessness Section has produced more than a dozen reports and policy guidelines since the launch of the #IBelong Campaign.11 The section also published a series of “Good Practices Papers,” highlighting particularly successful reforms and projects all over the world. Most of UNHCR’s published guidance on statelessness focuses on legal and procedural reforms. UNHCR’s ExCom12 also produces updates on statelessness, such as in 2017, when it updated member states on the progress made by the #IBelong Campaign. Recognizing that there was a need for more specific guidance by country, the Statelessness Section created the Global Strategy and Implementation Plan and the GAP Map, which consists of more detailed planning tables for each of the years covered by country operations. It was not clear, however, how much of this guidance is being used by country operations. UNHCR and UNHCR-supported training for staff. The marginalization of statelessness within UNHCR can be seen in UNHCR trainings, where a separate training on statelessness is not mandatory for protection staff even though statelessness is part of UNHCR’s core mandate. UNHCR has incorporated statelessness as a topic into the Protection Learning Program and other optional trainings, including a separate, thematic module.13 However, one senior UNHCR staff remarked that these trainings have not been updated since 2011. There are also UNHCR subsidized courses through the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, the ISI in collaboration with Tilburg University in the Netherlands, the Université Catholique d'Afrique Centrale in Cameroon, and the University of Melbourne through the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness.14 These trainings benefit some UNHCR staff, government officials and CSOs. UNHCR also engaged well with CSOs as part of its annual NGO consultation, but could do more to focus these consultations on statelessness. In general, UNHCR could do more to increase knowledge of statelessness through trainings, both within UNHCR and with government and partners, including PRM. 5.1.2 Mainstreaming and Coordination The UN Secretary General (UNSG) recognizes the need to mainstream statelessness throughout the UN and provided an updated Guidance Note in 2018 on the responsibility of all UN actors to address statelessness. The document, Guidance Note of the Secretary-General on the United Nations and Statelessness,15 stresses that “all UN entities system-wide have an important role to play in achieving these objectives and must increase their efforts to address this important issue.” Inter-agency coordination is considered important to advance the GAP goals, as explained in Box 6. Box 6: Importance of Coordination “I think we need far better coordination far better collaboration, and we don’t need to wait for the #IBelong Campaign to end. We can start now. We have the clear guidance from the UN.” In practice, however, this evaluation found that UN coordination remains weak, both globally and at the country level, and UN partners continue to overwhelmingly see statelessness as an issue primarily for UNHCR. UNHCR needs USG and UN leadership to help improve coordination, including continued pressure from the UNSG. UNHCR Coordination around Statelessness. The Coalition for Every Child’s Right to a Nationality (Coalition) is a joint global coalition between UNHCR and UNICEF to improve birth registration and reduce childhood statelessness that has wide participation at the global level from civil society groups and UN agencies, including the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the GCENR. Global-level funding for the Coalition supports two UNICEF staff that dedicate only a portion of their time 11 UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), I Am Here, I Belong: The Urgent Need to End Childhood Statelessness, 3 November 2015, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/563368b34.html [accessed 15 March 2021]. 12 UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme, Standing Committee 69th meeting, Update on statelessness, 7 June 2017, EC/68/SC/CRP.13, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/59a58d724.html [accessed 15 March 2021]. 13 See the Protection Starter Kit Refworld website at https://www.refworld.org/protection_kit.html#k3 14 See websites at: https://iihl.org/event/course-on-statelessness-2/, https://www.institutesi.org/courses, https://law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/statelessness/engage/statelessness-intensive-course-2021 and https://www.auf.org/nouvelles/appels-a-candidatures/appel-candidature-auditeurs-edition-2020-du-cours-droit-de-lapatridie-etde-la-nationalite/ 15 UN GA Guidance Note of the Secretary General: The United Nations and Statelessness, 2018 8