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POLICY DOCUMENTS CHECKLIST
4 NATIONAL
•S
ervice charters containing commitments on
quality / of efficiency government services
• Access to justice policies
• Civil status reform or modernization policy
•P
olicies on asylum seekers or undocumented
migrants
• Child protection policies
4 INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL
•2
007 ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and
Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers,
Article 2
•2
014 Ministerial Declaration to “Get everyone in
the picture” in Asia and the Pacific
•E
conomic Community of West African States
(ECOWAS) Plan of Action on Eradication of
Statelessness, 2017 – 2024
•D
eclaration of International Conference on the
Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) Member States on
the Eradication of Statelessness
•A
ction Plan of the International Conference
on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) on the
Eradication of Statelessness 2017-2019
• Brazil Declaration and Plan of Action
•C
onclusions of the Council and the
Representatives of the Governments of the
Member States on Statelessness
•L
eague of Arab States Ministerial Declaration
on Belonging and Legal Identity
•2
015 Abidjan Declaration of Ministers of the
Economic Community of West African States
on eradication of statelessness
STATE AND LOCAL PRACTICE CHECKLIST
ACTUAL GOVERNMENT PRACTICE IN APPLYING THE LAWS AND POLICIES RELATING TO YOUR
PROJECT MAY BE AS IMPORTANT AS THE LAWS THEMSELVES. THE RELEVANT PRACTICES
MAY BE NATIONWIDE OR MORE LOCALIZED—LOCAL ACTORS FREQUENTLY PLAY CRITICAL
ROLES IN SHAPING PRACTICE ON ACCESS TO LEGAL IDENTITY DOCUMENTATION. THE
CONTEXT FOR YOUR PROJECTS INCLUDES, THEREFORE, THE FOLLOWING:
•W
hether laws are applied in the same way to
people of different backgrounds
• Whether practice varies from region to region
•D
ifferences in fees and time-scales between
regions
• Supporting documents requested
•C
ommon challenges, e.g. delays in transferring
claims to a central office, bribe requests
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