• • Legal and psychosocial counselling was provided to CAPN members who had endured significant challenges in the context of COVID-19. CAPN members received legal training resulting in increased knowledge and understanding of the issue. Future Plans CAPN will focus on expanding its membership and establishing district committees with focal points and supporting staff in different provinces. It will also map affected persons and build the capacity of its members, through implementing ‘Lived Experience Fellowship’ and ‘Leadership Development’ programmes. With sustained funding, CAPN aims to work with fellow organisations to achieve constitutional reform and the adoption of gender equal citizenship policies. NATIONALITY FOR ALL – SUPPORTING THE CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS COMMUNITY IN ASIA Nationality For All (NFA) is a regional organisation that aims to promote the right to nationality and other rights of all people affected by statelessness in the Asia-Pacific region, through strategic and long-term partnerships with stateless led organisations, grassroots groups and national NGOs. Action Award (EUR 25,000) NFA set out to action the roadmap of the ‘Together We Can’ report, by supporting four Asia-Pacific CESF Consortium Partners (CAPN (Nepal), CoM (Bangladesh), DAJI (India) and FF (Malaysia)) to implement the Report’s country specific calls to action. NFA engaged in a series of consultations with partners to provide short-term and long-term planning support. Impact • NFA’s work with DAJI has allowed them to reflect on their institutional priorities and work on organisational strategic plans to address statelessness. NFA also conducted on a study titled ‘Legal Validity of the NRC process and its effects on statelessness.’ With DAJI, NFA aims to help DAJI form a coalition of affected people, that will advocate on behalf of the community. • NFA’s support culminated in the incubation of CAPN for one year to help build their capacity, register their organisation, write and adopt organisational policies and hire personnel. NFA supported CAPN’s strategic planning and strengthened their expertise on citizenship laws and policies. They supported CAPNs fundraising, helping them secure support from the Julia Taft Fund and the KIOS Foundation Fund. NFA also supported CAPN in the implementation of their own CESF Action Award. As a result, CAPN are better placed to operate as an organisation and pursue its agenda. • NFA’s support of FF centred around helping with their international media support strategy and related media outreach. NFA further helped them to develop a social media activism manual and co-implemented a social media advocacy workshop for affected mothers. NFA further supported FF’s fundraising efforts reviewing a concept note for the Julia Taft Fund. • NFA’s support to CoM included assisting with institutional reflections and planning to prepare a first draft strategic plan. NFA also supported the development of a research paper titled ‘Right to Nationality and the Risk of Statelessness of the Urdu Speaking Community of Bangladesh’. • This project also had a significant and positive impact on NFA itself. Being a relatively new regional organisation, the project helped solidify regional advocacy, strengthen relationships and lay the foundation to form a regional alliance on statelessness. Reflecting on this, NFA observed: “ We are in a better position to understand the needs, capacity, interests and challenges that our partners have been facing. We also have a better understanding of how organisations led by affected people work and the benefits they can have along with their challenges. This can be replicated in global advocacy to strengthen the meaningful participation of stateless people and provide more visibility to stateless-led organisations.” Future Plans In the short-term, NFA plans to support its partners to finalise their strategic plans, and to complete a regional mapping of statelessness. In the long term, with sustained funding, NFA’s advocacy plans include the formation of a regional alliance on statelessness and strengthening regional and global civil society movement building. 15