identifying clients and issues. At the same time, collaboration should include national-level organizations operating on the other side of a country as well as regional and international NGOs and movements. These organizations can amplify your project’s call for change. They can also provide a comparison to practices elsewhere and intervention on topics that your project may have difficulty addressing due to security, perceptions of bias, resources, or other barriers. See 10.8 Advocacy Strategy: Working with International, National, and Regional Human Rights Bodies, Campaigns, and Social Movements for guidance on building and cultivating movements and coalitions, including internationally, for the purposes of advocacy. 4.3 Partnering with International Organizations RELATED RESOURCE Lawyers for Human Rights’ Practitioner’s Guide on Promoting Citizenship and Preventing Statelessness in South Africa is an exemplary capacity-building tool aimed at coaching lawyers, paralegals, and social workers to resolve cases of statelessness. The mandates of the UN agencies listed below all engage in various ways with issues related to provision of legal identity documentation or statelessness. Approach them for funding and partnerships, help with tasks such as facilitation of meetings with authorities, technical guidance, to amplify your advocacy messages, referrals, and more. • UNHCR: mandated to identify, reduce, and prevent statelessness, and protect stateless persons. • UNICEF: mandated to protect children, through access to birth registration and the right to acquire a nationality. • United Nations Development Programme: mandated to assist governments in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals, including 16.9, which explicitly references the aim of a legal identity for all. Often leads UN country team efforts to support national development plans, which frequently cover improving access to civil status documentation. • UN Women: mandated to ensure women’s empowerment and inclusion, thus interested in their legal recognition and ability to exercise socio-economic rights. • United Nations Population Fund: mandated to assist governments with population statistics, thus concerned with civil registration and vital statistics issues. • IOM: mandated to assist migrants, whose documentation and nationality issues are often difficult to resolve. • The UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations: peacekeeping missions often actively support local human rights, governance, and conflict resolution initiatives, including mobile courts for late birth registration and modernization of civil status systems. In addition, the World Bank has developed a specific platform on provision of legal identity documentation using modern technologies such as digital and biometric innovations, inspired by SDG 16.9, which it calls Identification for Development (ID4D). ID4D works with governments and finances projects on improvement of civil registration DISCRIMINATION EMPOWERMENT SUSTAINABILITY DATA RELATED RESOURCES (EXTERNAL) RELATED SECTIONS (WITHIN) A C O M M U N I T Y- B A S E D P R A C T I T I O N E R ’ S G U I D E : D O C U M E N T I N G C I T I Z E N S H I P A N D OT H E R F O R M S O F L E G A L I D E N T I T Y | 45