In the case of Thailand, the piloting process has helped to identify critical gaps. The initiative is supported by the Regional Support Office and the UNHCR, which can collaborate and work on filing the gaps in the civil registration system. THAILAND The government of Thailand has similarly set national CRVS targets for 2024, promulgated a national policy for CRVS, and completed a voluntary inequality assessment.88 ASEAN Commitment to Push Forward Civil Registration Focused on Universal Birth Registration ASEAN membership itself provides a framework for more robust protections against statelessness, as Article 18 of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration stipulates “the right to a nationality as prescribed by law. No person shall be arbitrarily deprived of such nationality nor denied the right to change that nationality.”89 Additionally, all member states are parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities—instruments that all contain important guarantees with regards to the right to nationality. The ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children90 undertook a country study looking at civil registration and issues of statelessness in 10 ASEAN member states, resulting in two key takeaways: (1) a continued commitment to push for civil registration and focus on securing birth registration for all children in ASEAN, and for the marriage of parents to be registered at the time of the birth of their child, and (2) a finding that domestic law in all of the 10 states in the study is generally open to birth registration of all children regardless of their legal status. Civil Society and Community-led Initiatives The Rohingya ID Project Bypassing the common bottleneck of the need to provide a legal ID document in order to access services such as banking, health care, and SIM card registration, alternative and community-led identification programs such as the Rohingya ID Project may provide fruitful avenues to expand opportunities for the social and economic integration of stateless populations. However, this initiative remains in the proof-of-concept stage and does not currently facilitate access to any services on the planned social and financial platform.91 24 UND OING PRECARIT Y: ELE VATING P OSITIVE PR ACTICES FOR REFU GEE PROTECTION IN SO U TH AND SO U THE AST ASIA