STATELESSNESS AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY people do not hold documentation of citizenship, the rejection of an application for citizenship documents by a person who does not hold documents anywhere else should be accompanied by an effort to facilitate that person’s access to citizenship documentation in another country. If the other country also rejects the application, then the state of habitual residence should have the first obligation to provide that person with access to its nationality. The East African Community legal frameworks and institutions should be adapted to promote cooperation in the determination of nationality of populations where that is in doubt, including working with UNHCR and other relevant international agencies to establish bi- or tri-lateral commissions to hold sessions in border regions and adjudicate the cases of people who could possibly lay claim to two or more nationalities but hold documentation nowhere. The Brazzaville Declaration and Regional Action Plan adopted by the ICGLR Member States provide another important framework for collaboration to end statelessness. The ambitious timeframes envisaged by the Action Plan, including ratification of the statelessness conventions by 2019, should be monitored by civil society, UNHCR and states themselves. 86 UNHCR / September 2018