National Human Rights Institutions delivered a joint statement in which they affirmed their engagement to assist States and UNHCR to resolve statelessness, including through awarenessraising campaigns with the authorities and the public, and by promoting access to justice by stateless persons. IOM8 pointed to the risk of statelessness in the context of forced displacement and migration, especially when migrants have no documents and their migration/displacement is protracted. IOM stressed the need to develop a regional framework for the protection of migrant stateless persons and to establish fair procedures for the determination of nationality and issuance of documents. UNICEF9 indicated that less than 50% of children are registered at birth in the region, and stressed that the absence of a birth certificate is an obstacle to the determination of nationality. UNICEF said that the 3rd Conference on Civil Registration (Yamoussoukro, 1213 February, 2015) has declared the Decade of Civil Registration in Africa, and adopted a series of measures to ensure birth registration including for refugee and stateless children. Civil Society10 called on States to take measures to end statelessness including the creation of multisectorial working groups and developing national plans of action. It advocated for a greater involvement by States in all actions they undertake. Finally, it requested UNHCR to integrate the word stateless in its title. IOM was represented at the ministerial segment by the Regional Director for West and Central Africa. Deputy Representative of UNICEF in Ivory Coast, speech delivered on the behalf of the UNICEF Regional Representative 10 Secretary General of the West Africa Forum of Civil Society Organizations (WACSOF) read a joint statement prepared by several NGOs platforms. 8 9