UNHCR: A GLOBAL MANDATE This study aims to help UNHCR better evaluate the scope of statelessness in Akkar, and better understand the underlying causes of this phenomenon, its risk factors, its effects on individuals and their families, and the potential coping mechanisms to address it. • A decade into the Syrian crisis, Lebanon has become one of UNHCR’s largest single-country operations worldwide. In particular, the northern offices of Tripoli and Akkar received the largest initial influx of refugees from Syria, thereby increasing pressure on the governorate’s displaced and vulnerable communities, including Lebanese stateless persons. • In addition to its work with refugees, UNHCR has a global mandate to identify, avoid, and minimize statelessness, and to protect stateless people around the world. • In order to achieve its goal to end statelessness in Lebanon, UNHCR collaborates with the government, civil society and with other UN agencies and institutions. • After having mapped statelessness in Tripoli with MARCH in 2019, Siren Associates initiated a new mapping, this time with UNHCR, to uncover and better understand the complex situation further north, where statelessness has been historically prominent. Prevent new cases of statelessness By increasing access to legal remedies and improving stateless persons’ enjoyment of basic rights. Support durable solutions for stateless persons Source: Stateless persons. (n.d.). UNHCR Lebanon. Retrieved May 13, 2021, from https://www.unhcr.org/lb/stateless-persons By encouraging birth registration, particularly among vulnerable populations such as refugees., and by advocating to amend nationality and civil documentation laws to end statelessness at birth. By providing technical assistance to ensure that legislation related to statelessness complies with international standards. Address existing causes of statelessness © 2021 Siren Associates. All Rights Reserved.