Many children are at risk of statelessness in the area of Kourou-Koualou. Juliette, 10, just obtained a birth certificate.” Natitingou, Benin, 11 December 2015. © UNHCR/Simplice Kpandji Collaboration at the global level At the High Commissioner’s 2016 Dialogue on Children on the Move, UNHCR and UNICEF launched a new Coalition to Ensure Every Child’s Right to a Nationality.40 Co-led by both agencies, the Coalition is a diverse group of civil society organizations and other UN agencies. Its objective is to ensure that no child is born stateless by improving birth registration and eliminating laws and practices that deny children nationality. UNHCR and UNICEF have developed joint strategies for achieving these objectives in thirteen countries.41 These strategies focus particularly on preventing statelessness by improving access to and rates of birth registration. The World Bank estimates that 1.1 billion people in developing countries lack proof of identity and therefore find it difficult to participate fully in economic, social and political life.42 With this in mind, more than 15 global organizations, including the World Bank, UNICEF and UNHCR, jointly developed, in the context of the World Bank’s Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative, a new set of Principles on Identification for Sustainable Development.43 The Principles will assist those working to implement SDG 16.9 to promote the inclusion of persons of concern to UNHCR and take steps to prevent statelessness. The first Principle, Inclusion, affirms that all persons should have access to a legal identity, including birth registration, in support of the global aspiration to leave no one behind. The ID4D initiative also calls for CRVS programmes to be prioritized in national development plans. 40 At: http://www.unhcr.org/ibelong/unicef-unhcr-coalition-child-right-nationality/. 41 Addendum to the Memorandum of Understanding between The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and The United Nations Children’s Fund for Collaboration in relation to the Coalition on Every Child’s Right to a Nationality [during the period 1 January 2017 - 31 December 2024]. 42 Estimates by the World Bank ID4D Dataset. 43 Identification Principles for Sustainable Development: Toward the Digital Age, at: http://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/id4d. 11 CAMPAIGN TO END STATELESSNESS WITHIN 10 YE ARS