Table 2: Funding and Diplomacy Action Action 1 Action 2 and 3 Action 8 Action 10 Activity High-level diplomacy to Dominican Republic Engagement of Thailand in the Group of Friends 2012 and 2016 HRC Resolutions on gender discrimination and the right to a nationality UNHCR funding to FWLD for work in Nepal Coordination of the Group of Friends for advocacy on gender discrimination in the law UNHCR and GCENR submissions to the Nepal UPR (2016, 2021) U.S. Ambassador to the UN HRC in Geneva speaks at a high-level event organized and chaired by GCENR GCENR joint submission in 2018 to the CEDAW (Nepal). UNHCR Support to FWLD for legal aid in Nepal UNHCR provides legal aid to Groups A and B in Dominican Republic UNHCR supports ADRA for legal aid in Thailand, including with funding PRM pledged at HLS PRM Funding to Heartland Alliance in Dominican Republic to support legal assistance for Groups A and B PRM Funded Research in Nepal, Thailand, and Dominican Republic UNHCR in Dominican Republic conducts biometric identification of Group B2 H Work on Action 3. Building on the Women’s Nationality Initiative launched by the U.S. Secretary of State in December 2011, PRM has been committed to addressing discrimination in nationality laws and civil registration since before the launch of the GAP and #IBelong Campaign. This commitment translated in PRM’s multilateral diplomatic efforts in support of Action 3 of the GAP and of the #IBelong Campaign to increase awareness and mobilize other leaders to join its work in raising women’s equal rights to nationality as a priority for multilateral and regional partners, including UNHCR. During 2014–2017, the Ambassador to the UN in Geneva initiated two women empowerment projects including “The Future She Deserves” and a leadership network called the International Gender Champions. The first person she successfully recruited to become a gender champion was the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (see Box 30). Box 30: GBV and Statelessness “The Future She Deserves focused on genderbased violence. We tried to use that platform as a way to focus on what it means to women when they’re stateless and all the downstream effects. Through the International Gender Champions, we were trying to get the heads of diplomatic missions, the heads of international organizations, the heads of NGOs, basically all leadership, to make specific commitments on how they were going to promote gender equality within their organizations or through their programmatic work in the coming year.” Box 31: Women’s Nationality Rights “One thing that I would say that I’ve seen as being very effective and it sits alongside the Global Action Plan has been the very specific work around gender equality. And I know that PRM has also separately supported the Global Campaign so dedicated support to an initiative which is able to bridge civil society in the UN because the global campaign is the steering committee, I think it is. There are members from both the UN, so UNHCR and others and from civil society, but the global campaign itself also has its dedicated kind of funding and is able to implement its own activities. And I think that kind of environment has worked very well, and you see that in some respects more progress has therefore been made on the gender equality goal than some of the others.” PRM’s funding to the GCENR aligns with Action 3, with a focus on ending gender discrimination in nationality law. The GCENR is also engaged in the work of the Coalition on Every Child’s Right to a Nationality, serving as a member of the advisory committee. The Coalition’s work is aligned to Action 3 as well as 2, 8, and 10. The GCENR’s work also complemented UNHCR’s work on Action 3 as highlighted by one informant (see Box 31).27Other work on Action 3 includes a joint publication with UN Women, UNICEF and UNHCR on gender discrimination in the law.28 Additionally, UNHCR publishes a Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness every year and has published a Practice paper on Action 3.29 27 Since 2014, the GCENR has made over fifty submissions to UN human rights bodies, organized seven national/regional multi- stakeholder workshops, and published over a dozen publications and advocacy resources, in addition to other activities. 28 For more information see https://www.unhcr.org/ibelong/gender-discrimination-and-stateless-children/ 29 For more information see https://www.refworld.org/docid/604257d34.html, 22